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  This illuminated manuscript represents the work done by French monks
  in the early part of the fourteenth century. The border, containing
  as it does many grotesque figures scattered through its foliage,
  indicates this, as also the style of the faces in the miniature
  work. This is taken from one of the many "Book of Hours" and was the
  page used for the "Sext Hour," a full description of illuminated
  manuscript will be found Part IX, page 101.

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    VERY REV. J. K. BRENNAN                              Missouri
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  VOL. I

  THE DELPHIAN SOCIETY




  COPYRIGHT 1913
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I.


                                                                    PAGE

  The Delphian Course of Reading                                    VIII

  Prehistoric Man; Customs and Occupations. Dawn of Civilization     XIV


EGYPT.

  Prefatory Chapter                                                   13

  CHAPTER I.
  Its Antiquity; Story of Joseph, Physical Geography, Prehistoric
    Egypt                                                             20

  CHAPTER II.
  Sources of Egyptian History; Herodotus' Account of Egypt            31

  CHAPTER III.
  Pyramid Age; Early Egyptian Kings; Construction of Pyramids         37

  CHAPTER IV.
  Age of Darkness; Middle Empire; Reigns of Amenemhet I. and III.;
    Description of Labyrinth                                          43

  CHAPTER V.
  Egypt under the Shepherd Kings; Beginning of the New Empire;
    Conquests of Thutmose I.                                          51

  CHAPTER VI.
  First Egyptian Queen; Temple of Hatshepsut; Expedition to Punt      57

  CHAPTER VII.
  Military Kings; Hymn of Victory; Worship of the Solar Disk;
    Temple of Karnak                                                  64

  CHAPTER VIII.
  Nineteenth Dynasty; Egypt under Ramses the Great; Twentieth
    Dynasty; Priest Rule; Ethiopian Kings                             72

  CHAPTER IX.
  Social Life in Egypt; Houses, Dress, Family Life                    85

  CHAPTER X.
  Sports and Recreations                                              96

  CHAPTER XI.
  Agriculture and Cattle Raising; Arts and Crafts; Egyptian Markets;
    Military Affairs                                                 100

  CHAPTER XII.
  Schools and Education; Egyptian Literature                         112

  CHAPTER XIII.
  Religion of Ancient Egypt; Hymn to the Nile; Egyptian Temples and
    Ceremonies                                                       119

  CHAPTER XIV.
  Art and Decoration                                                 133

  CHAPTER XV.
  Tombs and Burial Customs                                           138

  CHAPTER XVI.
  Excavations in Egypt; Discoveries of W. M. Flinders Petrie         144

  _Descriptions of Egypt._
    Description of the Nile                                          153
    Feast of Neith                                                   155
    Karnak                                                           159
    Memphis                                                          161
    Hymn to the God Ra                                               163

  _Egyptian Literature._
    An Old Kingdom Book of Proverbs                                  164
    The Voyage of the Soul                                           168
    The Adventures of the Exile Sanehat                              171
    The Song of