IT is strange that while literature occupies so much attention as at
present, and while fiction is the largest division of our book-work, the
oldest literature and fiction of the world should yet have remained
unpresented to English readers. The tales of ancient Egypt have appeared
collectively only in French, in the charming volume of Maspero’s “Contes
Populaires”; while some have been translated into English at scattered
times in volumes of the “Records of the Past.” But research moves
forward; and translations that were excellent twenty years ago may now
be largely improved, as we attain more insight into the language.

Beleolvasok