We have received the "fourth memoir of the Egypt Explora-
tion Fund,"—Tanis, Part II. By W. M. Flinders Petrie ; with chapters by A. S. Murray and F. Ll. Griffith. (Tralmer and Co.) —The volume includes accounts of discoveries at Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanes). The last place is peculiarly interesting on account of its connection with the fortunes of the Jewish race.
Another work on Egypt by Mr. Flinders Petrie is Honiara, Bianthu, and Arsinoe. (Field and Tuer.)—The region with which he deals is that known to classical students as that of Lake Moeris, and Mr. Petrie gives us an interesting notice of this somewhat mysterious place. The main objects of the exploration were the Pyramid of Hawara and the Labyrinth. The remains yielded by the cemetery were of the Ptolemaic period and later. None of these are more curious and valuable than a papyrus con- taining the second book of the Iliad, which was found under the head of a lady, who must have been a young and beautiful woman of the Greek type. The papyrus dates from the fifth cen- tury, and its text is, on the whole, in agreement with that com- monly received.
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