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Professor Maspero's last official act as Director-General of the Excavations and Antiquities of Egypt was his examination of the mummy of Ramses II. found in 1884, in the presence of the khédive and other high dignitaries.
We are, in this third instalment of Maspero's monumental work, brought to understand how the decline of one mighty Asiatic empire after another, culminating in the overthrow of the Persian dominion by Alexander, prepared at length for the entry of Western nations on the stage, and how Europe became the heir of the culture and civilisation of the Orient. I. The Assyrian Revival
My visitor had gone palpably through the window, for certainly the front door had not been opened. "She has gone, Coates!" I exclaimed. And on this occasion it was Coates who repeated in an amazed voice: "She?" But even as he spoke, my attention had become diverted. I was staring at that portion of the table upon which Maspero's book lay.
"Meg's an awful girl for books," he said, as he carried off a bundle of yellow-paper-bound French novels and one or two volumes of the Temple Classics to her room. "She'd better begin on this," he said, as he returned in search of still more. "She can't do better" he lifted up the weighty tome of Maspero's Dawn of Civilization. "A bit dry, isn't it, for a beginner?" "Not for Meg," Freddy said.
For a coloured facsimile on a large scale, see Professor Maspero's article entitled "Trois Années de Fouilles," in Mémoires de la Mission Archéologique Française du Caire, Pl. 2. 1884.
The young man was pleased: "Does it show exactly where Maspero's Exchange stood?" he asked. Ovide said come to the shop and see. "I will, to-day; at six." Another man came up, "Ah, Mr. Castanado! How how is your patient?" "Madame" the costumer smiled happily "is once more well. I was looking for you. You didn't pass in Royal Street this morning." "No, I oh! going, Landry? Good day. No, Mr.
Whenever the public mind approached that sad state of public sentiment in which sanctity signs politicians' memorials and chivalry breaks into the gun-shops, a good place to feel the thump of the machinery was in Maspero's. The first man Frowenfeld saw as he entered was M. Valentine Grandissime.
Go from this world!" Scattered about the room were The Nineteenth Century and After, The Quarterly Review, the Times, and several books; among them Goethe's "Faust," Maspero's "Manual of Egyptian Archæology," "A Companion to Greek Studies," Guy de Maupassant's "Fort Comme la Mort," D'Annunzio's "Trionfo della Morte," and Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter." There was also a volume of Emerson's "Essays."
It is no longer the God of whom no man knew either the form or the substance: it is Kneph at Esneh, Hathor at Durderah, Horus, king of the divine dynasty at Edfoo." These words are M. Maspero's. The Greek and Latin poets and philosophers, as they made some very slight acquaintance with Egyptian worship, give Greek or Latin names to the divinities worshipped.
The tales of ancient Egypt have appeared collectively only in French, in the charming volume of Maspero's "Contes Populaires"; while some have been translated into English at scattered times in volumes of the "Records of the Past." But research moves forward; and translations that were excellent twenty years ago may now be largely improved, as we attain more insight into the language.
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