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Analyses of Books. 
[November, 
nucleus of matter, and the four parts of nitrogen, each weighted 
with a little of this hydrogen [sic /] are sufficient to attract its 
rays. On its own surface it receives this hydrogen, and the 
oxygen ray which attracts it is detained by the nitrogen, enve- 
loped in its fourfold power, and the weight of the oxygen thus 
shielded brings it down rapidly to the Earth.” 
For all these startling assertions there is no evidence, analy- 
tical or otherwise. 
Egypt and the Wonders of the Land of the Pharaohs. By 
William Oxley. London : Triibner and Co. 
The author begins by saying “ It may be thought by the gene- 
rality of people that there are quite sufficient books published on 
Egypt.” But there is no other country — perhaps no other 
subjedt — which admits of being considered from so many sides. 
Mr. Oxley’s own point of view is given in the following words, 
and it is one, we submit, which cannot be lightly passed over. 
He writes : — “ I came to the conclusion that there was, and is, 
an affinity between ancient Egypt and modern Great Britain, 
which had either been unseen or ignored by previous authors. 
As a psychologist — more acquainted with the occult laws and 
phenomena pertaining to this science — I saw that without the 
recognition of this element in ancient Egyptian society more 
than the half remained unknown ; and my chief objedt in pub- 
lishing this work is to attradt attention to this part of the social, 
political, and especially religious economy of Egypt, the elements 
of which, in past centuries, have been so deeply entwined in our 
own history.” 
Of course that decreasing portion of the public who are tho- 
roughly satisfied in their own minds that the phenomena included 
anciently under the head “ magical ” were simply and purely 
delusions, will find in this book little to soothe their prejudices. 
As a matter of course the Great Pyramid receives here due 
consideration. Mr. Oxley has no hesitation in assigning to its 
architedl a more than ordinary human foresight and skill. He 
considers that it embodies in stone “ the principles of geography, 
mathematics, meteorology, and astronomy,” and that it further 
embodies “another and anterior science, the Science of Symbols, 
implying a knowledge of the Intellectual evolution and prophet- 
ical history of Humanity .” Whilst discussing this subject he 
rejects as a monstrous fallacy the supposition that law is only 
applicable to the external phenomena of Nature. 
In the account here given of the Great Pyramid we notice a 
