Ip was to be expected that a book on Egypt by Mr. Weignll would soon appear after the sensational find of Tutankhamen's tomb, for there is now a large public willing to be informed and Mr. Weigall is certainly the man to meet the need, endowed as he_j is with an exceptional gift of pictorial and also pungent writing, and an, infectious enthusiasm for archaeology. His "Life and Times of Aknhaton''—quite a fas-eluating book, was republished last November in a fourth edition and immediately sold out. The present book has no such unity, for it consists of 18 essays mostly collected from various magazines but it makes an excellent introduction to the "Glory of the About one third of them throw light' on the general question of archaeology, its motives and its risks and rewards. The author knows there is plenty of popular ignorance to be illumined. Until recently archaeologists were expected to be more or less fossilized or mummified themselves, Mr. Weigall describes a local secretary of some rich institution as "a melancholy lady in a green lush dress who was suffering om St. Vitus' dance.'? Probably some people have not yet got over the shock of hearing that young lord had_ given to the subject his interest, time and money without being insane. A book like this, however, reveals archaeology as a task of imagination and a labour of love that makes a full demand on a man's quality. It is not the collecting of old remains that matters. These are only the dry bones on which ani instructed imagination has to create a breathing reality.
Thus he relates the amusing (to us) misfortunes of Wenanion, (C. 3), and the heroic labours of Horem (C. 9), with the same skill he showed on a larger scale in his full length portrait of the religious autocrat, Aknhaton. Such studies deepen the meanings of history, for archaeology ig in a sense the mother of history, in so far as it is human than national. On which the author finely says (p. 75): "It is the inherent sense of history that is the source of the strength and the sweetness of liberalism und democracy, for it gives to every individual a feeling of res-Pponsibility which causes him to
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