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 weariness to the student's soul. Rameses the Great in his chariot discharging volleys of arrows among the Hittites, with his charioteer visible in miniature between his legs; Rameses the Great destroying his defeated enemies, apparently in cold blood, where the great King has got a whole batch of them by the hair like a bunch of vegetables, and is menacing them with a weapon which looks at a distance like a life-preserver, but on a closer view is seen to possess the facilities of a scalping-knife; Rameses the Great returning in triumph; the King making offerings to Ammon-Ra, with an interminable train of Hittite captives behind him, each couple chained together on a different principle from the preceding one. There is just a little too much of it, and after a long course of victory over the Hittites it is quite refreshing to meet with the wall-painting of his degenerate successor, Rameses III., playing chess in his harem. There is, of course, nothing of this kind