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Excerpt from Early Egyptian History for the Young: With Descriptions of the Tombs and Monuments My dear Boys, - Since I returned from Egypt, you have asked me several times to teach you some Egyptian history. We made an attempt at it last holidays, but I think without any very signal success. On some rainy afternoons, and on one or two hot mornings, I succeeded in collecting you all together in one room, and in opening before you, Rawlinson's "Herodotus." or the first volume of Sir Gardner Wilkinson's "Ancient Egypt;" but the lecture I intended to give you on the subject never prospered as I could have wished. You had always so many questions to ask, and so many objections to make, - you grew so impatient over the long lists of hard names, and over the contradictory opinions of the various authorities on disputed points, - that it was hardly possible that much progress should be made; and I was not surprised, though a little mortified, when one of you remarked, that you thought you knew rather less about Egyptian history, at the end of the last lecture, than you did when our readings commenced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.