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"Sir G. C. Lewis on the Decipherment and Interpretation of Dead Languages," 1863, being a reply to the late Sir G. C. Lewis's attacks on Champollion and other decipherers of ancient inscriptions; "A few words on the supposed Latin Origin of the Arabic Version of the Gospels," 1863; "University Education for English Catholics. A Letter to the Very Rev. Dr. Newman, by a Catholic Layman," 1864; "Miscellaneous Notes on Egyptian Philology," 1866; "The Condemnation of Pope Honorius," 1868, a work furiously attacked by the Roman Catholic press and placed on the Index; "The Case of Pope Honorius reconsidered, with reference to recent Apologies," 1869; "Note on Egyptian Prepositions," 1874; "An Elementary Manual of the Egyptian Language," 1875; and "Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Religion of Ancient Egypt," 1880, being the Hibbert Lectures delivered in the previous year.

REUTER, Baron Paul Julius, was born at Cassel, in 1818. He was connected with the Electric Telegraph system from its earliest establishment. The practical working of the telegraph, in 1849, between Aix-la-Chapelle and Berlin—the first section opened to the public—convinced him that a new era in correspondence had arisen, and in the former town he established the first centre of an organisation for collecting and transmitting telegraphic news. As the various telegraph lines were opened in succession, they were made subservient to his system; and when the cable between Calais and Dover was laid in 1851, Mr. Reuter, who had become a naturalised British subject, transferred his chief office to London. Previously to the opening of his office, the leading London papers had furnished the public with scanty and incomplete intelligence, which was reproduced by the rest of the Press, and Mr. Reuter, to remedy this defect, established agencies in all parts of the world, to supply him with news, since which time time British Press has contained a daily record of the latest important events connected with politics, commerce, and science. The system he adopted of supplying all the papers indiscriminately with the same intelligence has greatly contributed to the important development of the penny press. A similar organisation has been inaugurated by Mr. Reuter in America, India, China, Australia, and all the Continental States. It was only by the united contributions of the several branches that the extensive staff of correspondents and the great expenses necessarily incidental to the work could be supported, the richest Press of any single country being insufficient to render such an undertaking possible. During the Franco-Austrian war, and during the civil war in America, Mr. Reuter was fortunate in being the first to publish the most important news, thereby gaining the confidence of the nation and the press—a confidence which he has maintained by his constant activity. In 1865, Mr. Reuter transferred his business to a Limited Liability Company, of which he is the manager, and in the same year he obtained from the Hanoverian Government a concession for the construction of a submarine telegraph line between England and Germany, which enabled a through telegraphic communication to be made direct between London and the principal towns of Germany. Mr. Reuter also obtained a concession from the French Government for the construction and laying of a cable between France and the United States, which was laid in 1869, and which is worked in conjunction with the Anglo-American Telegraph Company. In 1871, the Duke of Coburg Gotha, in recognition of his public services, conferred on him