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"Africa. It was only recently that FOR THE HIGHLANDS. "the sources of the Nile were dis- ⚫London. The total sum paid "covered. The Egyptians, admit- London. A shield which was for the pictures of the late Sir,"ting their ignorance, declared that given to Prince Charles, the Pre George Holford when the great, "this sacred water came to the tender, in Paris, before he left to sale ended at. Christe's auction earth from heaven, or else rose prepare for the 1745. rebelllon, rooms approached £417,000. Ple- "by secrat ways from the Lower was sold at Sotheby's for £4,000. tures were sold recently for, "World. For them, the majestic It was bought by Mr. A. Fraser, £52,332.

"river which fed them, was "The of Inverness, who stated that it There was a slight sensation "Great River, itr-da, or "The Sea, would be preserved for the High- at the sale of a set of "iuma; they called it Hopi whon lands. four "Seasona" executed by "they made it into a god of human! The collection of Stuart relics Francois Boucher In soft pastel "form." (p. 27.)

-preserved by Jacobites after colourings. A London gallery "But the annual Inundation is Culloden--was sold by Cluny purchased these for 600 guiness "the greatest of the miracles of MacPherson, chief of the Clan Then it was announced that a set the Nile. By this the river keeps Chattan, who announced recently of five designs by Alfred Stevens up the depth of cultivable soll, that the relics were sold "owing for the dining-room at Dorchester "compensates for evaporation, and to the exigencies of the times." House had been withdrawn and "gives it the humidity needed in a A copper plate for printing cur bought, with the help of the rainless country. Did the Egyp-rency notes, and found near the legatees of the Holford will, for tians know the real cause of the west end of Loch Laggan, fetched the Tate Gallery.

"periodic flood? Herodotus and 430. The sloop from France, The first thrill of the afternoon Diodorus are vexed that they with a large sum of money

been lost. came when the auctioneer's as- "could learn nothing from the aboard, had sistant held up the "Portrait of a "priests or anyone else, about the Was & commission to print notes Gentleman" by Francis Cotes, "nature of the Nile, the river No notes were printed, however, of amounts from £200 downward. said to be John: Simpson, of which unlike all others, flooded in Esslington, Northumberland. The he height of summer. The ris-and the plate is the only relic of bidding went swiftly from 300 to "ing of the Nile is a phenomenon

the trouble.

There was a ruffle worn by 4,200 guineas. There was ap which astounds those who see it' plause when it was announced and appears quite incredible to hind at Fassefern House after he Prince Charlic, which he left be- that the picture had been bought "those who hear of it. For where had set up his standard at Glen- for the National Gallery largely "as other rivers shrink about the as the gift of a woman who pre-summer solstice, and grow small- A wooden snuff-mill, used by

finnan.. ferred to remain anonymous, the "er and smaller, from that point on the Cluny "of the '45," was found National Art Collections Fund, wards, the Nile alone begins to in the cave where the Prince was and the legatees of the Holford "well, and its waters rise, day by hiding, and was sold for £28. jestate.

"day, until in the end they over-j flow almost the whole of Egypt." (p. 28.)

A pretty girl with a demure

Madam Lapsecu, who has been the constant companion of Prince Carol since he left his wife, Princess Helene, of Rumanis.

We can see how the organisation and control of this mighty flood) required the suppression of indivi- dualism, and gradually treated the division of the country into nomes ruled by a nomarch, subjecting the people to that discipline and government which are the warp and woof of civilisation. Could such a civilisation have come about without the far-sighted control of the flood, and the consequent Ir- rigation and regulation which the annual inundation engendered? Thus has nature Impressed on her creatures the benefits of the social and colonial habit.

But there came the little rift in the lute. It is not without signi- ficance that it is in the chapters hended 'Decline of the Memphite Monarchy' that we read: "Sɔ at "the end of the VI. Dynasty, "Pharaoh, the sole priest in theory, "found himself confronted by an; "oligarchy of priests, initiated by "their calling into the religious "rites, who managed and finally "owned the Fields of the God, and "were exempt from burdens and "control, yet claimed a position: "and an authority at Court which "the King himself had rashly re- "linquished to them. At the ex-) "pense of the monarchy the priest- "hood came to form what we may "call à feudal clergy."

Thus the temples of the gods and the whole priestly, class and their satellites were exempted in respect of taxes, labour, and ser- vicea levied by the King. Thus

the priesthood, a parasitic class of drones passed from under control

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