trade, M. Ambrose Barth, who has exerted himself so zealously for the advancement of all scientific undertakings, has likewise the merit of having made the first real attempt at casting a complete fount of hieroglyphics for the publication of Schwartze's work. These types, however, are evidently calculated for the phonetic signs alone; and they are defective as to Egyptian style and character in their outlines. In this respect, Champollion's grammar is a masterpiece; and the signs reproduced there lithographically have since been admirably formed by Messrs. Didot into a complete fount of movable types, designed by the late M. Dubois, and executed with the greatest elegance. M. Letronne has given a beautiful specimen of these characters in his valuable remarks on the tablet of Abydos. We are happy to announce that the Royal Academy at Berlin have granted to Chev. Lepsius the means of directing the execution of a complete set of hieroglyphical types, and that a specimen of these will soon appear. We hope this may be in the shape of a complete edition and interpretation of the Rosetta stone by Lepsius, who alone possesses all the requisites, together with the new precious materials afforded by the fragment of Philæ, which contains a part of the two Egyptian texts of that decree. We reproduce here the specimen of hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic writing given in the German edition, from Lepsius's Letter. This specimen represents, first, part of the sixth line of the hieroglyphical inscription on the Rosetta stone; the passage corresponding to it in the Demotic inscription is added in the third line; the intervening one gives the transcript of the hieroglyphic text into the Hieratic character, drawn up from corresponding signs, for no such transcript is known. This has been arranged from right to left, in order to accommodate it to the usual mode of hieratic writing. It need hardly be mentioned that the Rosetta stone itself, as an Egyptian monument, belongs to the time of the lowest decline as regards language, character, and hieroglyphical structure. 1. s. Phonetics Class I. s 2. I. Consequently to be read, s. ha; i. e. ha, to place, with s, the sign of causative or transitive power, and the grammatical sign which expresses the same figuratively, to set up. Greek text, ΣTHCAI. II. 1. x(n). Phonetics C. I. x 8. for xn. Consequently to be read, xn.t (statue). Greek text, ΕΙΚΟΝΑ. III. n. Phonetics C. I. n 3. Therefore n, of, genitive sign. Greek text, TOY. IV. A sprig and wasp, as symbol of the King of Upper and Lower Sprig, Phonetics C. I. s 6. t4.: together, sut for sutn, Wasp, Ideographic 358.; h, with feminine sign t 4. ht Making together, sutn ht or sutn xb (King). Greek text, BACIAEQC. ptur maius. Phonetics s1. Pturmis = Ptulmis. V. C. I. p 1. t 4. u 2. r 2. m 4. il. VI. 1. anx. Mixed Sign 45. Life. 2. tta. Phonetics C. I. t2. t4. tt, “eternal.” Making together, any tta, ever living, eternal. 3. The world, Ideographic 8., which on the later monuments is replaced by the zigzag line n. Greek text, ΤΟΥ ΑΙΩΝΟΒΙΟΥ. VII. 1. Pt h. Phonetics C. I. P1. t 4. h 1. Making Pth, Phtha pä, Vulcan. 2. Mr. i. Phonetics C. I. m 10. i 1.; being the past participle of the verb mr, to love, beloved. Making together, Mr. i (n) Phtha, beloved of Phtha Greek text, ΤΟΥ ΗΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΟΥ ΥΠΟ ΤΟΥ ΦΘΑ. Upon the Ring containing the royal names and titles compare what is said of the Determinative 148. VIII. ntr, god. 1. A hatchet. Mixed Sign 28. 2. Ground plan of a house. Mixed Sign 36. hr, to come, appear. i. e. the apparent god, EПIANOTC. IX. 1. A basket, Ideographic 588., nb, the lord. 2. A guitar, Mixed Sign 587. three times repeated, nfru, best, or of good. i. e. the best lord, ETXAPICTOT. III. EXAMPLE OF THE APPLICATION OF THE LISTS TO THE READING OF HIEROGLYPHICAL INSCRIPTIONS. As a specimen of the mode of interpretation, and the application of the analysis to the monuments, the last line of the Rosetta stone is subjoined, each word being divided and accom panied by its pronunciation, interpretation, and equivalent phrase in the Greek version; first giving the two as they are inscribed upon the stone, and then supplying from a comparison of other portions the literal rendering of this portion. The parts between brackets are given from the conjectural emendations of M. Letronne. ΤΟ ΔΕΨΗΦΙΣΜΑΤΟΥΤΟ ΑΝΑΓΡΑΨΑΙΕΙΣ ΣΤΗΛΗΝΕΣ ΤΕΡΕΟΥΛΙΘΟΥΤΟΙΣ ΔΕ ΙΕΡΟΙΣ ΚΑΙΕΝΧΩΡΙΟΙΣΚΑΙΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΙΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΣΙΝ ΚΑΙΣΤΗΣΑΤΕΝ ΕΚΑΣΤΩΙ ΤΩΝΤΕΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΥΤΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΙ ΤΩΝΙΕΡΩΝ ΠΡΟΣΤΗΤΟΥΑΙΩΝΟΒΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΙΚΟΝΙ. τὸ [δὲ ψήφισμα τοῦτο ἀναγράψαι εἰς στήλην ἐκ σ]τερεοῦ λίθου τοῖς δὲ ἱεροῖς καὶ ἐγχωρίοις καὶ Ἑλληνικοῖς γράμμασιν καὶ στῆσαι ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν τε πρώτων καὶ δευτέρω[ν καὶ τρίτων ἱερῶν πρὸς τῇ τοῦ αἰωνοβίου βασιλέως εἰκόνι.] "and that this decree should be inscribed on a stele of hard stone, in hieroglyphical, enchorial, and Greek letters, and be placed in each of the temples of the first, second, and third orders, close to the portrait of the everliving king." 1. Group composed of Phonetics C. I. s 1. x 4. u 2. i 2. and Determinative No. 18. 2. Phonetics C. I. p 1. and Later Alphabet n 6.; demonstrative pronoun, p. 285. 3. Phonetics, Alphabet and Syllabarium h 7., Determinative bar, Ideographic 596.; preposition, p. 300. 4. Phonetics C. I. h 5. i 1. Ideographic 432. 5. Phonetics, Alphabet C. I. n 1. t 4. i 2. participle ente, p. 297. 6. Phonetics C. I. a 4. t 4. Determinative 108. 7. Ideographic 563. 8. Phonetics C. I. m 4. 10. Phonetics C. I. n 1. 12. Mixed Sign 30. 9. Ideographic 540. 11. Mixed Sign 28. 14. Phonetics C. I. n 2.; preposition, p. 297. 15. Phonetics C. 1. q 1. a 1. i (u) 1., Determinative 126. 16. Phonetics C. I. s 1. x 4. i 1., Determinative 126. 17. Phonetics C. I. n 2.; preposition, p. 297. 18. Phonetics C. I. h 4. u 2. i 2., Ideographic 587. k 1. In the transcript of this inscription at Phila (Salt's Essay, |