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Show (.rest Arclurolocieal Find. From a London Letter. The Times announces that tho authorities au-thorities of the British museum have discovered among a collection of papyrus papy-rus rolls acquired recently in Egypt the text of Aristotle's trcatiso on the constitution con-stitution of Athens, from which many writers on antiquity quoted, but which has hitherto beeu known only in detached de-tached fragments, This treatise may now be seen at the British museum, where fac similes of it are being prepared. pre-pared. The opening chapter is missing miss-ing and the concluding chapteris mutilated, muti-lated, but otherwise the manuscript is in perfect condition. There is little doubt of the genuineness of the manuscript, manu-script, because noihing was known of the contents of papyrus roll when purchased. pur-chased. Tho Times siys this discovery is almost unprecedented in the whole history of classic learning. |