"An excellent and cheap compendium of information on a subject of intense and perpetual interest."—Watchman.
4. BABYLONIAN LIFE AND HISTORY. By E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A., Camb., Assistant in the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum. Illustrated. Crown 8vo., 3s. cloth boards.
"An admirable addition to this excellent series of 'By-Paths of Bible Knowledge.' Mr. Budge's method is sound, and his book is worthy of his reputation."—Saturday Review.
"A very readable little book, which tells the general reader all he need care to know about the life of the old people of Chaldea."—Athenæum.
5. GALILEE IN THE TIME OF CHRIST. By Selah Merrill, D.D., author of "East of the Jordan," &c. With a Map. Crown 8vo., 2s. 6d. cloth boards.
"Will be of great service to all who desire to realise the actual surroundings amid which our Lord spent His life on earth, and will be specially useful in correcting some false notions which have obtained wide currency, e.g., the common idea that Nazareth was a small, obscure, and immoral place."—Congregationalist.
6. EGYPT AND SYRIA. Their Physical Features in Relation to Bible History. By Sir J. W. Dawson, F.G.S., F.R.S., President of the British Association, 1886. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown 8vo., 3s. cloth boards.
"This is one of the most interesting of the series to which it belongs. It is the result of personal observation, and the work of a practised geological observer.... The questions raised in this little volume are discussed in the light of the most advanced knowledge and of large scientific faculty, and at the same time with great religious reverence."—British Quarterly Review.
7. ASSYRIA: Its Princes, Priests, and People. By A. H. Sayce, M.A., LL.D., author of "Fresh Light from Ancient Monuments," "Introduction to Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther," &c. Illustrated, 3s. cloth boards.
"A little masterpiece, it presents with scientific accuracy, and yet in a thoroughly popular form, all that is of most essential significance in the realised information respecting that old-world history and life."—Christian Leader.