[61] See Wilkinson, Vol. I, p. 179.
[62] See Ibid., p. 167. Where he is speaking of the Pharaohs he says: "By the practice of justice towards their subjects, they secured to themselves that good-will which was due from children to a parent ... and this, Diodorus observes, was the main cause of the duration of the Egyptian state."
[63] Z., III, LVI.
[64] Dr. Petrie, Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt, p. 120.
[65] W. P., Vol. II, p. 309.
[66] History of Architecture, Vol. I, p. 95.
[67] Miss Jane Harrison, Introductory Studies in Greek Art, p. 6.
[68] Dr. Petrie, A History of Egypt, p. 35. Referring to the Lady Nophret and her husband, the author says (speaking quite in the style of a modern art-critic): "These statues are most expressive, and stand in their vitality superior to the works of any later age in Egypt."
[69] On the walls of some of the tombs I inspected at Sakarah, the consummate mastery with which some of the minutest characteristics of domestic animals were represented in bold outline gave me a standard by the side of which even M. Boutet de Monvel's beautiful studies of animals seemed to fall into the shade. (See his illustrations to La Fontaine's fables.)
[70] Models of the Scribe and of the Cheikh-el-Beled are to be seen at the British Museum; but they give one but a poor idea of the originals.