LETTERS FROM OUR YOUNG FRIENDS.


DEAR EDITOR:

Is it asking too much of you, or is it out of your line of work to
give your readers some information in regard to the old library at
Tel-el-Amarna; and something about the present reigning family of
Egypt, as to its origin and its political relations to the European
powers?

If you have not room for a note on these, where could I obtain best
account of them?

(Mrs.) A.H.B.V.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., May 7th, 1897.


DEAR MADAM:

Tel-el-Amarna is the ruin of a residence of Amenophis IV. in Central
Egypt. In the winter of 1887-88 there were discovered there about three
hundred clay tablets, covered with cuneiform inscriptions which have
since been deciphered.

They contain the diplomatic correspondence of Kings of Babylon, Assyria,
Palestine, and other countries of Western Asia with the Egyptian court.