“A résumé of the material in the Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions which bears upon the interpretation and understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures. There is much material included on Babylonian life and civilization not to be found in other works of this kind.”—Bib. World.
“This is a valuable addition from a conservative standpoint to the abundant literature on this subject.”
| + + | Bib. World. 29: 319. Ap. ’07. 50w. |
“The work is so treated that it scarcely at all duplicates the works previously published.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 200w. |
“The text displays a vicious tendency to minimize the changes of opinion in the field of Hebrew history and religion made necessary by recent discoveries, and to gloss over the similarities and magnify the differences between Babylonian conceptions and those of the Biblical narrative.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 160w. |
Clegg, Thomas Bailey. Wilderness. †$1.50. Lane.
“This is a story of a great wrong, a bitter hatred, and retribution complete and merciless enough to satisfy the most remorseless seeker after justice.... The scene is laid in Australia, a country which Mr. Clegg has evidently studied to some purpose; the characters are primitive men with primitive passions.”—Acad.