There are also sundry religions texts, addresses to

the deity^ very faint extracts from the "" Book for knowing

whatever there is in the Lower Hémisphère of Heaven"

(pi. V. No. 5623 a, c), discovered in one of the royal tombs of

Biban-el Molùk at Thebes, varions sketches of Osiris Un-

noicer (pi. vi. No. 8505), Isis suckling the babe Horus

(pi. vi. No. 8506) ; but none of them possess the same

interest as the duplicate of literary compositions or the

above-mentioned memoranda of the public or private

Egyptian life. The editors hâve recognised two stones con-

taining extracts from the Papyrus Sallier II (pi. x. No. 5623;

pi. xi. No. 5638 a). I had lately the good fortune to discover

in a Parisian Papyrus the original of the text reproduced

in pi. XXV. No. 5632. According to Birch's description,

" It is an address or letter^ apparently part of a literary

composition. The paragraphs are markedoff with red stops.

It commences, *" Say to your children.' " The Parisian

Papyrus contains very mutilated portions of a médical

treatise and of a philosophical book, a paragraph of which is

to be found in pi. xxv. of the British publication. The text

of the ostracon being written in a small and indistinct hand,

and the ink being much faded, I think a translation of its

contents >vill not be unacceptable :

" Lo! Speak unto your children, — Since there is a mouth for thee to preach the word of God !— ' I am the divine form (?) of liini who obeys, — The man whose resolutions are adopted by his Lord, — because he passes his equals, — and raises himself to marvel !' —

Abstain from the works of weakness ! — The son who obeys is sraless; — There is no lack (?j of wisdom about him."

The séries of astronomical observations recorded on the stone No. 5635, pi. xx, hâve been studied by Birch himself, in Lepsius' Zeitschrift for 1868, with so much care and success that there is nothing to alter in his translation. No. 5637, pi. xviii, gives a mémorandum of some robberies

" perpetrated by the workmen of Nâxû-m-Mâùt. They went into my house, stole two large loaves and three cakes, spilt my oil, opened my bin containing the corn, stole Northern dehù-covïi. They went to the thouse in the ^yharf, stole half the kyllesteia (a kind of acid bread) yesterday [baked], spilt the oil. In thethird raonth of the SAemà-season, the r2th day, during the crown-feast of king Amen-hotep, ï. h. s., they went to the granary, stole three great

loaves, eight sà6ù-cakes of Roh^ùsù berries They drew a

bottle of béer which was [cooling] in water, while I was staying in my father's room. My Lord, let whatsoever has been stolen be given back unto me. "

The only means of conveying into the /zo/i-Egyptian reader's mind an exact idea of the contents of this volume would be to translate almost ail the pièces in it. As for the small class of persons to whom the Egyptian publications are addressed, they hâve reason to be truly grateful to the British Muséum for the new contribution thus made to our science. May the Trustées complète their work by giving us at last the continuation and the end ol their precious Select Papy ri.