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EGYPTOLOGICAL WORKS

BY

E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D., D.LITT., D.LIT.,

KEEPER OF THE EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES

IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

The Book of the Dead. In three Volumes. Vol. I. The Complete Egyptian Texts printed in hieroglyphic type; Vol. II. Vocabulary; Vol. III. Translation. Illustrated by three large 'coloured facsimiles of sections of papyri, and eighteen plates in black and white. Demy 8vo. Price of the complete work £2 10s. Vǝls. I. and II. (not sold separately) £1; Vol. III. (sold separately) LI 5s. net.

The Book of the Dead. The papyrus of Ani, in the British Museum. With translation and transliteration, and a series of introductory chapters on the religion of the ancient Egyptians. 4to. Half-morocco, £1 10s.

The Book of the Dead (Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Nu, Queen Netchemet, Kerâsher, etc.). Folio. £2 10s.

Egyptian Religion. Crown 8vo.

Egyptian Magic. Crown 8vo.

35. 6d. net.

35. 6d. net.

Egyptian Language. Crown 8vo. 35. 6d. net.

The Book of the Dead. With over 400 illustrations. English translation. 3 Vols., 35. 6d. each.

The Rosetta Stone. 2 Vols. 35. 6d. each.

The Decree of Canopus. 35. 6d.

A History of Egypt in 8 Vols.

Vol. I.
Vol. II.

Vol. III.

Vol. IV.

Vol. V.

Vol. VI.

Vol. VII.

35. 6d. each.

Egypt in the Neolithic and Archaic Periods.

Egypt under the Great Pyramid Builders.

Egypt under the Amenemḥāts and Hyksos.

Egypt and her Asiatic Empire.

Egypt under Rameses the Great.

Egypt under the Priest-kings, and Tanites, and Nubians
Egypt under the Saïtes, Persians, and Ptolemies.

Vol. VIII. Egypt under the Ptolemies and Cleopatra VII. With

full Index to the whole work.

Vol. I. The Book Am-Tuat.

Vol. II. The Book of Gates.

Vol. III. The contents of the Book Am-Ṭuat and the Book of

Gates described and compared, and a full Index.

First Steps in Egyptian. Demy 8vo. 9s. net.

An Egyptian Reading Book for Beginners. With a Vocabulary. Demy 8vo. 15s. net.

The Dwellers on the Nile. 8vo. 3.

The Sarcophagus of Ankhnesneferabra.

On texts from the

sarcophagus of this Queen, with translations, vocabulary, etc. 4to. 7s. 6d.

The Mummy, or Chapters on Egyptian Archæology. 8vo. 12s. 6d. Many illustrations.

Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Harrow School Museum. 8vo. 35.

Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge. 8vo. IOS. 6d.

The Martyrdom and Miracles of St. George of Cappadocia. Coptic texts with English translation. 10s. 6d.

St. Michael the Archangel. Three Encomiums in the Coptic texts, with translations. Imperial Svo. 155. net.

The Earliest-known Coptic Psalter. The text in the dialect of Upper Egypt, edited from the Unique Papyrus Codex Oriental 5000 in the British Museum. Imperial 8vo. 15s.

The Edition is strictly limited to 350 copies.

LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & Co., LTD., Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road.

Bakshish: Important Notice.

The following notice has been issued:

The attention of the Egyptian authorities has been frequently drawn, both by visitors and by residents in the country, to the evils resulting from the indiscriminate bestowal of "bakshish to the inhabitants of the Nile villages, and other places visited by tourists during the winter season The intention of the donors is no doubt kindly, but the practice-more especially in view of the yearly increase of visitors to Egypt cannot fail to be detrimental to the moral sense and the social well-being of the poorer classes of the community. At the present time many of the poorer inhabitants of those towns on the Nile which are most visited by tourists live almost entirely on what they can obtain by "bakshish" during the winter months; the easy means thus offered of obtaining a small livelihood prevents their adopting any form of labour; and children are brought up to regard the tourist season as the period during which they may, by clamorous begging, enable their parents and themselves to lead a life of idleness for the remainder of the year. The unhealthy tendency of such a system is obvious.

On the other hand, from the point of view of the Nile travellers themselves, the inconveniences of this universal mendicity are equally obvious, and, as time goes on, cannot fail to increase, unless some means are adopted for checking the practice.

It would be extremely difficult for the Government to devise an effective remedy for this state of things. The real remedy rests with the travellers themselves. If money were, in future, only bestowed in return for some actual service rendered, or in cases of evident and established distress, the present pernicious habit of begging would soon die out, to the advantage both of the people and of the visitors.

It is with this conviction that we venture to express a hope that our fellow-countrymen, when travelling in Egypt, will lend their aid to this important reform by abstaining from the distribution of money in response to mere demands for "bakshish," bestowing it only when the circumstances appear to them to warrant their generosity.

Tourists should especially abstain from throwing money from the decks of steamers on to the landing stages or on to the banks of the Nile for the purpose of witnessing the scramble for the coins; such exhibitions are mischievous as well as degrading.

(Signed) CROMER, H.B.M.'s Minister Plenipotentiary,

Agent and Consul General
RUCKER JENISCH, Minister Plenipotentiary,
Ag nt and Consul General for Germany.

J. W. RIDDLE, Agent and Consul General for the

United States of America.

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