SCOTT, ROBERT NICHOLSON, LIEUTENANT-Colonel. (See also "Atlanta.") SHERMAN'S MARCH FROM SAVANNAH TO BENTONVILLE Illustrations by W. Taber, A. R. Waud, E. J. Meeker, and from photographs. SILENT BATTLE, THE CAUSE OF A.. SONGS OF THE WAR, THE With notes on the "Battle Hymn of the Republic With frontispiece portrait (facing page 483), and autographs of Julia Ward Howe, William Cullen G. Norton Galloway. ..... 301 Illustrations by Frank H. Schell, W. Taber, C. W. Reed, and from drawings by the author. STEDMAN, FORT, ASSAULT AND REPULSE AT. George L. Kilmer. 783 Illustrations by E. J. Meeker, J. D. Woodward, and from photographs. (See also "Crater" and "Petersburg.") STUART'S RIDE AROUND THE UNION ARMY IN THE GETTYSBURG Illustrations by Joseph Pennell, W. Taber, Edwin Forbes, A. R. Waud, J. D. Woodward, Harry Fenn, and A. C. .160, 318, 478, 799 638 Jennie E. T. Dowe. 160 .A. C. Gordon. UNTANGLING THE FAMILY YARN. (With drawing by E. W. Kemble.). Eva M. D. Jarnette. WAIT A BIT. WHENCE THESE TEARS. WHO CAN TELL.. PHOTOGRAPHED THE SCARABEUS-EMBLEM OF IMMORTALITY ATTENDED BY A GOD. IN N the neighborhood of three thousand three hundred years ago the land of Egypt, from Goshen to Thebes and beyond, was in an up roar. The king was dead! Rameses II., the precocious youth who at the age of ten had joined his warrior-father Sethi I. upon the throne; the ruler whom his people regarded as a god; the oppressor under whom the Israelites are said to have "sighed by reason of their bondage"; the great Sesostris of the Greeks,-had breathed his last. The gay and busy life of the cities of the Delta was hushed, and the hundred gates of Thebes were only opened to those who ministered to the necessities of the living or who performed the sacred offices of the priesthood. All street processions, minstrel-bands, and mountebanks fled appalled. The cities which the great architect and artist-king had refounded,- Ra'amses and Pithom,-built by the forced labor of the Hebrews, were in their meridian splendor. The Ramesseum at Thebes was yet unsurpassed, and the colossal monolith which represented the enthroned king was then unbroken. The glorious quartette of Abou-Simbel, but recently finished, sat, as now, smiling at the Nubian sun. But Rameses II., in whose honor, for whose glory, and by whose command all these grand creations were finished, could look upon them no more with mortal eyes. His body was embalmed, and in due season the funeral procession followed. The mummied king was placed aboard the royal barge, and, attended by the priests and the images of the gods Horus and Isis and Hathor, was floated up the Nile to the Theban city of the Dead- to Bîbân el-Mulouk, the St. Denis, the Westminster Abbey of the kings, and a great lamentation went up to the skies from stricken Egypt. As the funeral cortége journeyed slowly on, the frantic people of the cities and villages flocked to the quays to render homage to their dead ruler. Even the despised and persecuted Hebrew suspended labor betimes because his cruel overseer had forgotten him. The men rent their garments, the women tore their hair, and all gathered up the dust and threw it upon their heads. Tens of thousands of funeral offerings were cast into the sacred river, and the gods were called upon to attend the dead throughout the sacred journey. It was a dire day indeed. When the sad company had arrived at the necropolis, all the complicated funeral rites were conducted with priestly ostentation. Then the body of Rameses was sealed in the great sarcophagus which had been cut from the limestone of Bîbân el-Mulouk. The location of the tomb was well known then, because it had been the habit of the monarch to visit it frequently during its excavation. More than once had the architect announced Copyright, 1887, by THE CENTURY Co. All rights reserved. |