of letting him walk, lengthen his │ strides, and go in and out in the │ Netherworld; and take the form of a │ living soul._ │ CLXXXI. _Chapter of arriving before the 368,│ LXI. Divine circle of Osiris and before 369│ the gods, the guides in the Tuat, │ before the guards of their halls, │ the heralds of their gates and the │ doorkeepers of their pylons in the │ Amenta, and of taking the form of a │ living soul and praising Osiris the │ lord of his circle of gods._ │ CLXXXII. _Book of vivifying Osiris, of giving 370–372│ LXI. air to him whose heart is │ motionless, through the action of │ Thoth, who repels the enemies of │ Osiris who comes there in his │ form ... as protector, saviour, │ defender in the Netherworld._ │ _It is said by Thoth himself, so that │ the morning light may shine on him │ (Osiris) every day._ │ CLXXXIII. _Adoration to Osiris, giving him 372–374│ LX. praise, bowing down before │ Unneferu, falling on one’s face │ before the lord of Ta-tsert, and │ exalting him who is on his sand._ │ CLXXXIV. _Chapter of being near Osiris._ 375│ LX. CLXXXV. _Giving praise to Osiris, falling on 375│ LX. the earth before the lord of │ eternity; propitiating the god with │ what he loves, speaking the truth, │ the lord of which is not known._ │ CLXXXVI. _Adoration to Hathor, the lady of the 376│ LX, LXII. West, falling down before Mehurit._ │ INTRODUCTION. When, in the year 1892, Sir Peter Le Page Renouf began the publication of his translation of the Book of the Dead, his intention was that the work, once completed, should be preceded by an elaborate Introduction, giving, besides all the information concerning the form and the history of the book, his views as to its sense and its religious value. As with the unfinished part of the translation,[1] so here, we are left without any notes or any clue whatever as to the form which this introduction was to have taken, and we are obliged to resort to the fifth of the Hibbert lectures, given by Renouf in 1879, in order to know his views about the book.[2]