The Series is designed for general readers, who wish to get in a compact and interesting form the fresh knowledge that has been brought to light during the last few years in so many departments of Biblical study. Intelligent young readers of both sexes, Sunday-school teachers, and all Bible students will, it is hoped, find these Volumes both attractive and useful.
The order of publication will probably be as follows, the titles in some cases being provisional:
I. CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE. A History of the Obelisk on the Embankment, a Translation and Exposition of the Hieroglyphics, and a Sketch of the two kings, whose deeds it commemorates. By Rev. James King, M.A., Authorized Lecturer to the Palestine Exploration Fund. (Now ready.)
II. ASSYRIAN LIFE AND HISTORY. By M. E. Harkness, with an Introduction by Reginald Stuart Poole, of the British Museum. (In October.)
III. A SKETCH of the most striking Confirmations of the Bible, shown in the recent Discoveries and Translations of Monuments in Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, etc. By the Rev. A. H. Sayce, M.A., Fellow of Queen’s College, and Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, Member of the Old Testament Revision Committee. (In November or December.)
IV. BABYLONIAN LIFE AND HISTORY, as Illustrated by the Monuments. By Mr. Budge, of the British Museum.
V. THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE, and the most striking Results of it.
VI. EGYPT—HISTORY, ART, and CUSTOMS, as Illustrated by the Monuments in the British Museum.
VII. UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM.
