Field-Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke as a correspondent . aterial was athand. The ancients bestowed much more trouble andexpense on their public buildings and less on theirown houses than we, but everything was neateven to the veriest detail. The rooms which sur-rounded a square court-yard are seldom largerthan eight to ten feet square ; they are unconnectedwith one another. The Pompeians must have had frequent inter-course with the Egyptians. This is proved bytheir sculptures, papyri, their temple of Isis andthe mummies that have been found. If one ofthese could rise and take a look at us,
Field-Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke as a correspondent . aterial was athand. The ancients bestowed much more trouble andexpense on their public buildings and less on theirown houses than we, but everything was neateven to the veriest detail. The rooms which sur-rounded a square court-yard are seldom largerthan eight to ten feet square ; they are unconnectedwith one another. The Pompeians must have had frequent inter-course with the Egyptians. This is proved bytheir sculptures, papyri, their temple of Isis andthe mummies that have been found. If one ofthese could rise and take a look at us, he wouldbe as much surprised at our appearance in coats 42 Selections from Letters to his Father. and round hats, and at our arrival by train, as ^vearc at his town. At a chemists medicine bottles of glass con-taining medicines, and marble jugs, with balsamsfor the embalming of mummies, were found. Ihave been lucky enough to obtain a little pieceof this hard mass which, in spite of the two thou-sand 3^ears that have elapsed, still retains a strongsmell. i. AUGUSTE VON MOLTKE. SELECTIONS FROM LETTERS TO HISSISTER AUGUSTE. AuGDSTE VON MoLTKE, the youiigest sister of the Field-Marshal,was born at Augustenhof in Holstein, on September 16th,1809. From her earliest childhooJ she had always been herbrothers favourite, and very early the rich endowments of hercharacter were seen in her humility, kindness of heart, andready self-denial. On the 21st of May, 1834, she was marriedto John Heyliger Eurt, of Colton, near Lichfield in England,owner of the plantation of St. John on the island of St. Croixin the West Indies. Her husband, who had lived in Germanyfor some time, had by his first wife, Ernestine von Staffeldt,three children, the youngest of whom, Marie, afterwards becamothe wife of the Field-Marshal. IIow much devotion Augusto 44 Selections from Letters von Moltke lavished on the education of her step-children, andwith what affection they returned her care has been told inthe biogra
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