_Ancient Language of Egypt_ (Vol. iv., pp. 152. 240.).--The only works on the language of ancient Egypt preserved in the hieroglyphical inscriptions that possess any authority are the _Grammaire Egyptienne_ of Champollion[4], and the appendix to the first volume of the Chevalier Bunsen's _Egypt's Place in Universal History_. Much, however, is known to individuals who have studied the language, which has not been published, or perhaps digested into a system; and the works mentioned are by no means to be depended on as to matters of detail, especially as respects the verbs and pronouns, though the general principles of interpretation may be considered as settled. There was another language used by the ancient Egyptians, and expressed in what is called the demotic or enchorial character. Brugsch of Berlin is the highest authority as to this; his work, _De natura et indole linguæ popularis Ægyptiorum_, is, I believe, incomplete, but he has published others in Latin and German. [Footnote 4: This contains the latest views of the author, whose most important discoveries were made near the close of his life. The _Précis_ contains much that Champollion afterwards rejected as erroneous. The _Dictionnaire_ is a compilation, made after his death from what he wrote at different periods of his life. It is inconsistent with itself, and abounds in errors, so as to be worse than useless to the student.] The work on Egyptian chronology, from which most seems to be expected, is that of Lepsius; but he has yet published only the first volume, which consists of preliminary matter. Le Sueur's treatise, though crowned by the French Académie, is a failure. Bunsen's less palpably erroneous, but a great part of the second and third volumes, which were published in German in 1844, would require to be re-written. Those who wish to study the chronology, as systematised by the Egyptians themselves, should consult the Turin _Book Of Kings_, of which an accurate fac-simile, with explanatory text, has been lithographed, and is about to be published by subscription, under the superintendence of a committee, of which Sir Gardner Wilkinson is the most prominent member. E. H. D. D. _Welwood's Memoirs_ (Vol. iv., p. 70.).--The edition referred to by MR. ROSS I have not seen, but there is one in my library printed at London in 1702, and which bears to be "the fourth edition," with the dedication to the king, and an address "to the reader" commencing as follows:-- "These sheets were writ some years ago, by the encouragement of _one_ whose memory will be ever sacred to posterity. It's needless to mention the occasion; and they had not been published now, if a surreptitious copy of a part of the manuscript had not crept abroad." The volume, which is very well got up in 8vo., is printed for "Tim. Goodwin, and sold by James Round at the Seneca's Head in Exchange Alley."