J.G.Batterson, probably the largest and most experienced worker in granite in the United States, who acknowledges, from personal observation, that the early Egyptian work is, in boldness and perfection, far beyond anything known since, and a source of perpetual wonder to him.

As to the perfection of Egyptian architecture, see very striking statements in Fergusson, History of Architecture, book i, chap.i.As to the pyramids, showing a very high grade of culture already reached under the earliest dynasties, see Lubke, Gesch.

der Arch., book i.

For Sayce's views, see his Herodotus, appendix, p.348.As to sculpture, see for representations photographs published by the Boulak Museum, and such works as the Description de l'Egypte, Lepsius's Denkmaler, and Prisse d'Avennes; see also a most small work, easy of access, Maspero, Archeology, translated by Miss A.B.Edwards, New York and London, 1887, chaps.

i and ii.