MEMBER OF THE "SOCIÉTÉ ETHNOLOGIQUE" OF PARIS; OF THE "AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY"; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE "ATHÉNÉE ORIENTAL" OF PARIS; AUTHOR OF "ASSYRIA," "MEDIA," ETC. "He (Carlyle) says it is part of his creed that history is poetry, could we tell it right."— Emerson. FOURTH EDITION London...

MDCCCXCIII TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS, IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF MANY HAPPY HOURS, THIS VOLUME AND THE FOLLOWING ONES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY THEIR FRIEND. The Author. Idlewild Plantation, San Antonio....

Mesopotamia.—The Mounds.—The First Searchers Layard and his Work The Ruins The Book of the Past.—The library of Nineveh...

Nomads and Settlers.—the Four Stages Of Culture. The Great Races.—chapter X. of Genesis Turanian Chaldea—Shumir and Accad.—The Beginnings of Religion Appendix to Chapter III. Cushites and Semites—Early Chaldean History Babylonian Religion Legends and Stories Myths.—Heroes and the Mythical Epos Religion and Mythology.—Idolatry and Anthropomorphism.—The Chaldean Legends and the Book of Genesis.—Retrospect...

Baer , Wilhelm. Der Vorgeschichtliche Mensch. 1 vol., Leipzig: 1874. Baudissin , W. von. Studien zur Semitischen Religionsgeschichte. 2 vols. Budge , E. A. Wallis. Babylonian Life and History. ("Bypaths of Bible Knowledge" Series, V.) 1884. London: The Religious Tract Society. 1 vol. ---- History of Esarhaddon. 1 vol. Bunsen , Chr. Carl Jos. Gott in der Geschichte , oder Der Fortschritt des Glaubens an eine sittliche Weltordnung. 3 vols. Leipzig: 1857. Castren , Alexander. Kleinere Schriften. St

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