Abstract
THE increased interest taken in Ancient Egypt has produced of late two new histories in English, and two in French and German. The English histories are last in the field, and are those of Prof. Rawlinson and Sir Erasmus Wilson. These histories are not really the work of Egyptologists or experts like that of Brugsch Pacha and M. Maspero, but are attempts to produce readable works for popular purposes by writers interested in Egypt or writers of history, and have consequently all the merits and defects of that kind of way of treating the subject.
The Egypt of the Past.
By Erasmus Wilson (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1881.)
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The Egypt of the Past . Nature 25, 74–76 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025074a0
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