ANCIENT EGYPT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 970, 10 November 1910, Page 8

ANCIENT EGYPT.

LECTJJEE AT THE AETS CLTTB.

A crowded audience in the rooms of the Arts Club listened last evening to a very interesting lecture by Mr. S. Hurst Seager, F.E.1.8.A., of Chiistchurch, on Modern Discoveries in Ancient Egypt." Mr. Seager has visited Egypt, and seen many of the ancient tombs, temples, monuments, and statues of which he spoke. By permission of Sir • Gaston .Maspero, Director, of the Museum of Egyptian Art at Cairo, he was enabled to tako many excellent photographs, not only in the museum itself, but also, by flashlight, in the ■ tombs of the kings, lhese, m the form of lantern slides, were shown to his audience last night, and were of great assistance in proving how vastly the discoveries of recent , years have added to our knowledge of the art and life of ancient ,Egypt. The lecturer made it clear that the people who occupied the 'Nile Valley thousands of years before our ,era left behind them ample evidence that in 6pite of traditional crudities of thought which had been handed down to them through countless ages, they had reached a very high piano of human, development,-noi only in the arts and sciences and general development of life, but also in the region of philosophical and religious thought. They had high ideals to express, and they expressed them in a highly artistic and adequate manner. They were, therefore great artists. They taught us the lesson 1 to be learnt from the earnest religious art of all peoples, that, whatever its style, it was great in the sum of its ■works in proportion as it embodied great and lofty ideas. Mr. Seager was heartily thanked for his lecture. Mr. H. Rayward, president of the club, was in the chair.