We must bring Uncle Bacchus's wife before our readers.

She is a tall, dignified, bright mulatto woman, named Phillis; it is with the qualities of her heart and mind, rather than her appearance, that we have to do.

Bayard Taylor, writing from Nubia, in Upper Egypt, says:--"Those friends of the African race, who point to Egypt as a proof of what that race has done, are wholly mistaken.

The only negro features represented in Egyptian sculpture are those of the slaves and captives taken in the Ethiopian wars of the Pharaohs.

The temples and pyramids throughout Nubia, as far as Abyssinia, all bear the hieroglyphics of these monarchs.