. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. ke, and from whom we have receivedfavors. Just such is the feeling which a man of liberal edu-cation naturally entertains towards the great minds of formerages. The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. Theyhave guided him to truth. They have filled his mind withnoble and graceful images. They have stood by him in allvicissitudes—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, com-panions in solitude. These friendships are exposed to no dan-ger from the occurrences by which other attachments areweakened or dissolve
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. ke, and from whom we have receivedfavors. Just such is the feeling which a man of liberal edu-cation naturally entertains towards the great minds of formerages. The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. Theyhave guided him to truth. They have filled his mind withnoble and graceful images. They have stood by him in allvicissitudes—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, com-panions in solitude. These friendships are exposed to no dan-ger from the occurrences by which other attachments areweakened or dissolved. Time glides by ; fortune is incon-stant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissolubleare daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by no such cause can affect the silent converse which wehold with the highest of human intellects. That placid inter-course is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. Theseare the old friends who are never seen with new faces, whoare the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscu-rity.—Lord EGYPTIAN LITERATURE. F the beginnings of Egypt we know research seems to indicate that theNile did not always occupy its present bed ;there was, then, a time when Egypt was adesert, and when the people known to us as Egyp-tian had their abode further south in the African con-tinent. Yet anthropologists, judging from mummies, statues,and other relics of the race, pronounce it Caucasian. There aresome traces of a prehistoric connection with. Southern that as it may, at an epoch now purely conjectural, thisancient people appeared in the narrow and fertile valley towhich they gave its name, and began the wonderful careerwhich modern investigation has but partially traced out. At this date—say seven thousand years ago—we find themalready accomplished in art and science, and possessed ofcertain knowledges to which we as yet are strangers. Nomore majestic figure than the Sphinx
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