Ancient History 941 crick York Powell (The Monthly Review. March): F. Rachfal, Robert Friiin (Historische Zeitschrift. XCMII, 3). ANCIENT HISTORY The Nemesis of Nations. Studies in History: Ancient World (Lon- don, Dent, 1907, pp. 360) by W. Romaine Paterson is the first of a series of studies analyzing the causes of the decay of ancient, medieval and modern civilizations. This volume deals with Hindustan, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. Messrs. Leonard V. King and H. R. Hall of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum interpret the meaning of newly-found data in a richly illustrated volume en- titled History of Egypt. Chaldca, Syria. Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent DiscOi'cry (New York, The Grolier Society). A History of Babylonia and Assyria from the Earliest Times until the Persian Conquest, by Mr. L. W. King, will be published through Messrs. Chatto and Windus. London, in three volumes, with illustra- tions after all the principal monuments of the period in the British Mu- seum and elsewhere. The first volume, which will be readv in the early autumn, will come down to about 2000 B. C. Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities in the British Museum, has published a monumental work on The Egyp- tian Siiddn: its History and Monuments (London, Kegan Paul, 1907, two volumes, pp. 682, 628) containing accounts of his four " missions " to the Sudan between 1897 and 1905, his explorations and those of previous explorers, and an elaborate history of the Sudan from the time of King Seneferu of the IV. Dynasty, to the present day. Professor J. A. Montgomery has published the lectures delivered by him on the John Bohlen foundation in a learned work entitled The Samaritans, the Earliest Jczvish Sect (Philadelphia. J- C. Winston. 1907, pp./ xiv, 358). The writer presents the results of the researches of many scholars in the history, theology, and literature of this sect. Mr. Murray announces a book by Professor Ronald M. Burrows on the Cretan Excavations and their Bearing on Early History which will summarize the results of the excavations which have been in progress for six years at Knossos and other Cretan sites and are being continued under the direction of Mr. Arthur J- Evans. Professor Fred Morrow Fling of the University of Nebraska has compiled A Source Book of Greek History (Boston, Heath, 1907, pp. xiii, 370) for employment in secondary schools. Helpful use is made of illustrations. The first two volumes of L. R. Farnell's The Cults of the Greek States appeared in 1896. The Oxford University Press has recently issued the third and fourth volumes, dealing with the worship of Ge, Demeter and Kore-Persephone, Hades-Pluto, the Mother of the Gods
