My Life And Experiences Among Our Hostile Indians

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My Life and Experiences Among Our Hostile Indians

Howard, O.O.

Biographies & Memoirs

Abdul Pr

Napoleon's Letters To Josephine, 1796-1812

Hall, Henry Folijambe

Indians of the Southwest

History

Goddard, Pliny Earle

Americas

Swan Song

Literature & Fiction

GALSWORTHY, JOHN

Literary

PREFACE. I FEEL that the printing of my lectures brings with it a certain difficulty. Lectures intended to be read within the Museum, with a continual reference, implied and often expressed, to the place, the objects gathered within it and their associations, must have had a certain fifaess which will be more or less diminished when they come to be read under different conditions. Moreover, they were written and spoken with an idea always present in my mind that I had a class of students whom I was addressing, and that my other auditors stood in a more remote relation to me. Certain appeals to my teaching, certain dlusions to the practice of the students and to their position of relative de- pendence and inferiority of age or acquaintance with the world, of little or no significance to my readers, are thus explained. I have not seen any way of so modifying these lectures as to suit my feelings and wishes in the present nor could I have found the time to do so had I seen my way clearly to that end. Even the time that I gave to their prepam tion for the Museum course had to be taken out of the horns of personal teaching and they bear the mark of a more temporary considemtion on my part than would suit me had I from the first thought of publishing them. At the same time, there is always something in work done for a special practical purpose which through its very contexture makes a practical answer to many questions and I have hoped that with some slight modifications and explanations I may manage to make my readers feel that these lectures are for them. I need not add, I think, that there is little in these pages that pretends to be novel. Indeed, I should like to apped to the memories stored in the consciousness of my readers, and ask if their own observation does not bear me out in mine....

Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson

EMERSON,Ralph Waldo

History & Criticism

PREFACE IT is somewhat remarkable that, in spite of the considerable, if spasmodic, interest which is taken in the results of research in Egypt, no adequate account of the work of evcavation has ever been written. The student who wishes to learn how, when, and where the facts and objects which interest him were discovered, has himself to excavate the desired information from the innumerable volumes of reports issued by the various exploration societies. It is much to be desired that someone who is master of the subject, and preferably, someone who has had actual experience of the work of excavation, shouId tell the story, not in a manner suited only to the ears of experts, but so that the educated public on whom in the long run excavation must depend for its resources, could appreciate and enjoy a narrative which ought to bc as fascinating as any story of scarch for buried treasure. This volume makes no pretension to the discharge of such a task. All that it attempts to do is to outline the story of certain aspects of the great work which has givcn us back so many of the wonders of the ancient civiIisation of Egypt. Its omissions are, doubtless, many but two will be at once conpicuous to, anyone who has the slightest acquaintance with the subject. nothing is said of the Search for the Cities, which in the closing years of the nineteenth century created so much interest, and resulted in so many identifica- tions of sites and nothing is said of the great work of Papyrus-hunting which has added so much to our knowledge of ancient life. These two matters were left untouched for reasons vllich scemed valid. In the case of the Cities, many of the identifications of the nineties are at present being questioned, and it seemed better to leave the matter till something like agreement is reached. In the case of the Papyri, the subject has become so specialised, and has developed so large a Iiterarure of its own as to render impossible any attempt to dcal with it, on the scale which it deserves, in such a volume as the present. It may be that at some time In the not far distant future, when controversy has rcsulted in more or less general agreemcnt as to the sites, these two aspects of Egyptian excavation may be dealt with in a volume which Inay be a sequel arid companion to this.....

A Century of Excavation in the Land of the Pharaohs

Baikie, James

Ancient Civilizations

Methods of Organic Analysis

Sherman, Henry Clapp

Science & Math

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