12 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 28

Two Theban Queen3. By Colin Campbell. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and

Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—The "Two Queens" are Nefert-ari and Ty-ti. The former is the more important of the two. Nefert-ari was the first and favourite wife of Rameses II., and the decoration of the chambers of her tomb is highly interesting. Perhaps its chief significance lies in the decision with which it announces the deification of the deceased. She does not come before the Immortals to be judged, but to be made one of them. Possibly one sees in this a mark of Egyptian decline. A nation which is strong in faith and morals does not think in this fashion. Ty-ti is not to be confounded, Mr. Campbell warns us, with the Queen cf Amenhotep III., Taiti. Who she really was is unknown.