| vol. iii.—no. 147. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday, August 22, 1882. | Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
EGYPTIAN HISTORY.
BY EUGENE LAWRENCE.
Egypt is the most interesting of countries, because it is probably theoldest. We borrow from it nearly all our arts and sciences, and haveonly improved upon what the Egyptians taught us. Our alphabet and theart of writing came from the banks of the Nile. It was carried toPhœnicia, then to Greece and Rome, and then to Europe and America.The Egyptians invented the lever, by which[Pg 674] all engines are moved, andelectricity and steam made useful. Egyptian glass-makers, goldsmiths,painters, weavers, builders and stone-cutters, miners, gardeners, andeven poets and historians, have taught their arts to all the Westernnations; Moses studied in the Egyptian colleges, and Joseph and hisfather looked upon its Pyramids and temples with wonder.
The land of Egypt is a deposit of mud brought down by the floods of theNile from the mountains of Middle Africa. Ever