MUMMIES

have been found belonging to the old Persian, A yrian, Egyptian, Peruvian, Mexican, and other peoples; and even ‘natural’ M., i.e. bodies preserved only by the action of dry air, have been found. The proce of embalming was carried on by different ranks of operators. The brains were extracted through the nostrils, and the entrails through an incision in the stomach and then the body was washed, salted, and finally; wrapped in a number of balsam-steeped linen bandages, over which was spread glue or plaster. of the x8th century, who had a more than TransAtlantic power of exaggeration. Hence, ‘ a veritable M.’ means * a notorious liar.’ Glasgow, was bom about 514. t During political troubles he fled to St. David of Wales, and one of his followers, called Asaph, founded the Welsh bishopric of St. Asaph. a ferret. (For its habits, see Rudyard Kipling’s delicious story of “ Rikkitikkitavi.”) died the year of Waterloo. Under Napoleon in Egypt he became a general of division ia 1799, and married Napoleon’s youngest sister in 1800. In 1804 he was made a prince of the imperial house, and in 1808 King of Naples under the title of ‘Joachim Napoleon.’ He was through the Ru ian campaign with Napoleon, but deserted him after the battle of Leipzig. was born in 1792, and died in 1871. He served in the Peninsular War, and after the peace of 1815 travelled over various parts of Europe and Australia. He was one of the founders of the British A ociation, and for many years the President of the Royal Geographical Society. 1754, and in 1777 got employment in Birmingham with the great engineers, Boulton & Watt. In superintending the erection of ‘ Watt ’ engines in the Cornish mines, he made many discoveries for economizing and simplifying them, and was admitted a partner about 1800. Hie greatest invention was that of gas-lighting he lit his own house in Cornwall with gas in 1792,; and introduced it into Birmingham in 1798. and owed some of his early succe to Velasquez, and some of his later succe to having married an heire . became both friend and publisher to many of the chief Post-Revolution writers, c.g. Byron, Moore. Rogers, Crabbe, Campbell, Irving; but he is probably best known as the inventor of the GuideBook system. 1745. and left America for England after the Declaration of Independence. He wrote several other educational and ethical works, but his greatest work was his “ English Grammar." ters of Memory, and presided over various arts and sciences. They were—Clio, the Muse of History; Euterpe, Lyric Poetry; Thalia, Comedy; Melpomene, Tragedy; Terpsichore, Dancing; Erato, Love Poetry; Poly hymn i a, Psalmody; Urania, Astronomy; and Calliope, Epic Poetry.