"A very noteworthy contribution to the study of sacred history, based upon the three indispensable conditions of personal acquaintance with the land, a study of the explorations, discoveries, and decipherments, especially of the last twenty years, and the employment of the results of Biblical criticism during the same period. The necessity and importance of such an undertaking need no demonstration, and the results as set forth in Dr. Smith's learned and laborious work will be appreciated by all competent scholars."—Times.
"It is not often that we have to review a book so thorough and so masterly, and, at the same time, written in a style which commands attention as well as admiration.... It contains and 'uses' the important parts of all the immense mass of modern research and discovery, enriched and illuminated by a mind of imagination and poetry, as well as scholarship."—Saturday Review.
"This is really a great book. A subject of fascinating interest has been treated with an ability and a fulness which leave nothing to be desired."—Westminster Gazette.
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