Edinburgh, Jan, 31.
When the small army of pressmen assembled at Luxor were admitted to the great ante-chamber of Tutankhamen's tomb, among the things that struck them most was the fact that the two statues of the monarch which guard the door of the actual tomb show him wearing '"'a kilt-like skirt" and heavy gold sandals. Is this not fitted to stir the fancy of our friends of the Celtic revival? We have no clear recollection of ever hearing that gold sandals were imperative as part of the garb of old Gaul, but there was a time when it was a lively article in our historic faith that the Scots came from Egypt by devious ways, wearing the kilt and carrying in their midst the Lia Fail, of Stone of Destiny, which had previously served Jacob as pillow, and was doubtless brought down to the land of Goshen by Joseph or his brethren. The narrative fits in nicely with the fact, now established, that Pharaoh wore a kilt, leaving nothing to answer but the question whether he got the fashion from the Scots or they got it from him. Truly we are a great people and of stupendous antiquity.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.