Telegram-herald., 1889-09-05

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IA Iondou within Ten days after yol gel IT,
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enees ia the course u ths ascent frcM tne
tomb chamber, 2u1 OF how tazt prince of
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sni nov 1 eorsted thea Then. 100. ~e
VI xet The rolls declphered / expect that
they only coa,aiu sae usual thing, copies OF
the Booz OF the Dead. b-E there may DO
something else ia tnen. Needless 20 say,
did not nzrrzte this htrle adventure "a
Egypt, or should have had the Boul4e NJ
scum people 0n ny track Good bye
.H-ash Fiaeesb." as Al Ba5a always said.
Il due course ny friend, tue writer Of tho
letter from which have quoted, arrived IN
London. and on the very next day We paid
= visit % "a acquaintance well versed Ia
kierog yp1ics aud dem0tlc writing. VITA
what anxiety We watched him skilifuily
d4mpsning aud unfolding one OF tho rolls
aud peering through his g0ld-rimmed
glasses a. the mysterious chsr2cLers may
wei Dc imagined
Hum % he sad, whatever IL is, this Is
not a copy OF the Book Of the Dead By
George, what thisi -Cleo-Cleopatra
Way, my dear sirs, as an living nan,
this Is the history OF somebody who lived IN
the days Of Cleopatra Well. there's six
months work before me here-six months,
al the very least" And in that joyful
prospect he fairly lost control Of himself,
and skipped about the room, shaking hands
with Us AT intervals, and saying: I'm
I
we will publish Il; and, by the living
Osiris, II VIII drive every Psychologist in
Europe mad with envy Oh, what find
what a most glorious and"
And o you whose eyes shall fall upon
these pages, see, they have been trans
lated, and they have been printed, ard here
they lie before you-an undiscovered land
wherein you are free TO travels
ten tomb. The walls OF Tine fall down,
and as at the lightning's leap q picture
from the past starts suddenly on your view,
framed in the gathered darkness OF the
ages.
He shows you those two Egypts that the
silent pyramids looked down upon long
centuries ago-the Egypt of the Greek, the
Roman, and the PtoleIly, and that other
outworn Egypt OF the hierophant, hoary
with years, heavy with the legends OF
antiquity and the memory Of long-lost
honors
lie tells you how the smoldering loyalty
Of Khem Egypt burnt UP before it died,
and how iercely the old Time -consecrated
Faith struggled against the conquering
tide Of Change, that, drawn ever by the
mystery of Mind. rose like the Nile at food,
and drowned the ancient gods of Egypt.
Here, in his pages, ycu shall learn tho
glory OF Isis the Many-shsped the Execu-
tor Of DEGREES. Here you shall make ac-
quaintance with the shade OF Cleopatra,
that "Thing of Flame" whose passion
breathing beauty shaped the destiny Of
empires. Here you shall read how the soul
OF CharmiOn was slain OF the sword her
vengeance smithied.
Here Harmachis the do0u,ed FOrp.i,n
being about TO die, salutes you who follow
on the path he trod. In the story Of has
broken years he shows to you what may in
Its own degree be the story Of your own.
Crying aloud from that dim Amenti where
to-day he wears out his long atoning time,
IN the history Of his fall. he tells the fate OF
him who, however sorely tried, forgets his
God, his honor, and his country.