Our conversation was of Beethoven and Mozart, of Strauss and Lanne.

The fame of the bravura composers of the present day, Liszt and Thalberg, had not yet penetrated to these regions.

I requested my kind host to shew me the establishment for hatching eggs that exists at Gizeh.

He immediately sent for the superintendent, who happened however to be absent, and to have locked up the keys.

In this place about 8000 eggs are hatched by artificial warmth during the months of March and April.