Let no one consider himself ready for death, till like the men by the Nile he can call up every scene, face with courage every exigency of the ordeal.
There is one copy of the Book of the Dead of especial interest, made for the Scribe Ani, with exquisite marginal drawings.

Copies may be found in our large libraries.

The particular fac-simile I had the honor to see was in the Lenox Library, New York, several years ago.

Ani, according to the formula of the priesthood, goes through the adventures required of a shade before he reaches the court of Osiris.

All the Egyptian pictures on tomb-wall and temple are but enlarged picture-writing made into tableaus.
Through such tableaus Ani moves.