THE AMERICAN CHURCH REVIEW EDITED BY THE REV. H. M. BAUM JANUARY, 1881 VOL. XXXIII. No. 1 NEW YORK: JAMES POTT, 12 ASTOR PLACE CONTENTS. I. ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE BIBLE. Rev. CUNNINGHAM GEIKIE, D.D., Paris, PAGE I II. DAILY PRAYERS AND VESPER SERVICE OF THE CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SWITZERLAND. Rev. GEORGE F. SIEGMUND, D.D., New York,. III. THE EUCHARISTIC OFFICE OF THE CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF IV. THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF 1880, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE V. THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF 1880. Rev. JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., VII. THE INFLUENCE OF WORDSWORTH'S POETRY. Rev. Prof. EDWIN E. JOHN- IX. FOUNDING A HOSPITAL. Rev. CLINTON LOCKE, D.D., Chicago, · 157 167 X. A FAMOUS RELIGIOUS EPIC OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Prof. FRANCIS 173 THE AMERICAN CHURCH REVIEW. JANUARY, 1881. ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE BIBLE. * THE HE visitor to Père la Chaise will find, near a by-path in that wonderful cemetery, among the thousands of its tombs, one so plain and unpretending that it may easily be overlooked, if the eye be not arrested by the name it bears-Jean François Champollion. It covers the dust of the first decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and yet its date is so recent as 1832. In the fortyeight years since he died, at the early age of forty-one or forty-two, what advancements have been made in the study to which his discoveries introduced the world! Already a whole literature on the remains of ancient Egyptian life has been written, and as the name of Brugsch Bey's last volumes indicate, a whole history of Egypt has been written "wholly from the monuments. This rapid progress in Egyptology has been noteworthy in many respects, but in none more than in the * ÆGYPTEN UND DIE BÜCHER MOSE'S. Von Dr. Georg Ebers. Leip zig, 1868. HISTOIRE ANCIENNE DES PEUPLES DE L'ORIENT. Par G. Maspero. Paris, 1876. ÉTUDES SUR L'ANTIQUITÉ HISTORIQUE. Par M. Chabas. Paris, 1876. A HISTORY OF EGYPT UNDER THE PHARAOHS, DERIVED ENTIRELY FROM THE MONUMENTS. By Henry Brugsch Bey. London, 1879. |