those days when
the guiding intellect of Egypt became irrevocably dual, and when
between the two parts of it, the priests and the pharaohs, opposition
appeared so clearly defined and incurable that the ruin of both sides
was evident in the future.

The ruin of a pharaoh and the fall of his dynasty, with the rise of a
self-chosen sovereign and a new line of rulers, are the double
consummation in this novel. The book ends with that climax, but the
fall of the new priestly rulers is a matter of history, as is the
destruction wrought on Egypt by tyrants from Assyria and Persia. The
native pharaohs lost power through the priesthood, whose real interest
it was to support them; but fate found the priests later on, and
pronounced on them also the doom of extinction.

Alexander Glovatski was born in 1847 in Mashov, a village of the
Government of Lublin. He finished his preliminary studies in the Lublin
Gymnasium, and was graduated from the University of Warsaw. He took
part in the uprising of 1863, but was captured, and liberated after
some mouths' detention. As a student he showed notable power, and was
exceptionally attracted by mathematics and science, to which he gives
much attention yet, though occupied mainly in literature.

Glovatski's published works are in seventeen volumes. These books, with
the exception of "The Pharaoh and the Priest," are devoted to modern
characters, situations, and questions. His types are mainly from Polish
life. Very few of his characters are German or Russian; of Polish types
some are Jewish.

Alexander Glovatski is a true man of letters, a real philosopher,
retiring, industrious, and modest. He spends all his winters in Warsaw,
and lives every summer in the country. He permits neither society nor
coteries, nor interests of any sort, to snatch away time from him, or
influence his convictions. He goes about as he chooses, whenever he
likes and wherever it suits him. When ready to work he sits down in his
own house, and tells the world carefully and with kindness, though not
without irony, what he sees in it. What he sees is exhibited in the
seventeen volumes, which contain great and vivid pictures of life at
the end of the recent century. Men and women of various beliefs,
occupations, and values, are shown there.

Glovatski is entirely unknown to Americans. This book will present him.

Excepting the view in the temple of Luxor the illustrations given in
this volume are from photographs ta