THE RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
Including Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, Persia, India, Phœnicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome. By George Rawlinson, M.A., author of the “Origin of Nations,” etc. 1 vol. 12mo, $1.
“The historical studies which have elevated this author’s works to the highest position have made him familiar with those beliefs which once directed the world’s thought, and he has done literature no better service than in this little volume.”—N.Y. Christian Advocate.
THE BEGINNINGS OF HISTORY,
According to the Bible and the Traditions of the Oriental Peoples. From the Creation of Man to the Deluge. By Francois Lenormant, Professor of Archæology at the National Library of France, etc. (Translated from the Second French Edition.) With an introduction by Francis Brown, Associate Professor in Biblical Philology, Union Theological Seminary. 1 vol. 12mo, 750 pages, $2.50.
“M. Lenormant is not only a believer in revelation, but a devout confessor of what came by Moses as well as of what came by Christ. In this exploration of Chaldean, Babylonian, Assyrian and Phœnician tradition he discloses a prodigality of thought and skill allied to great variety of pursuit and diligent manipulation of what he has secured. He ‘spoils the Egyptians’ by boldly using, for Christian purposes, materials, which, if left unused, might be turned against the credibility of the Mosaic records. From the mass of tradition here examined it would seem that if these ancient legends have a common basis of truth, the first part of Genesis stands more generally related to the religious history of mankind, than if it is taken primarily as one account, by one man, to one people.”—The New Englander.
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