=THE BEGINNINGS OF HISTORY,=
According to the Bible and the Traditions of Oriental
Peoples. From the Creation of Man to the Deluge. By
FRANCOIS LENORMANT, Professor of Archæology at the
National Library of France, etc., etc. (Translated
from the Second French Edition). With an introduction
by FRANCIS BROWN, Associate Professor in Biblical
Philology, Union Theological Seminary. 1 vol. 12mo, 640
pp., $2 50.
“The work is one which deserves to be studied by all students of
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to the elucidation of the sacred volume.”—_The Tribune._
=COREA, THE HERMIT NATION.=
By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, author of “The Mikado’s Empire,”
and late of the Imperial University of Tokio, Japan. 1
vol., 8vo, with numerous maps and illustrations, $3 50.
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