Author of "The Story of Chaldea," "The Story of Assyria," "The Story
of Media, Babylon, and Persia," "The Story of Vedic India";
Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
Ireland, of the American Oriental Society, of the
Société Ethnologique of Paris, etc.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON
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