THE DESERT OF THE EXODUS.

neys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings; undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By E. H. PALMER, M. A., Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. With Maps and numerous Illustrations from Photographs and Drawings taken on the spot by the Sinai Survey Expedition and C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $3 00.

Mr. E. H. Palmer has herein embodied the results of the survey of the Desert which excited a considerable interest among biblical students. The enterprise was undertaken in the hope of clearing up many doubts of an historical or a geographical kind that rested over the land of the Exodus of Israel. The success which attended it was in the highest degree gratifying, and Mr. Palmer's narrative of the journeyings of the Commission has both a present interest and a permanent value. He was exceedingly well fitted to undertake the explorations, from familiarity with the country and the differing colloquial dialects of the wandering Arabs, and his intelligence and discrimination appear in every chapter of the book. While the whole inquiry has been made in a spirit of the truest reverence and of implicit belief in the Mosaic history, Mr. Palmer does not encumber his account with disputation or with undue application of Bible texts, but goes right on with ease and freedom to the results at which the explorers aimed. Among these the determination of the true site of the Mountain of the Law is perhaps the most remarkable.-N. Y. Evening Post.

All along in Mr. Palmer's volume are these pleasant surprises in regard to actual life, which reverse many of our former notions about the land and its people. In this particular it is the most instructive narrative of journeys in the desert region since the narrative of Burckhardt; and it has a finer humor than the narrative of Burckhardt. Mr. Palmer has a quick eye for absurdities, and enlivens his volume by entertaining anecdotes, while he makes no boast of his achievements, and does not embellish facts by a lively fancy. The little things which he notes are delightful.-Golden Age.

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Dr. Curtius, it is well known, has applied to the quiries of Humboldt and his successors, as well as the presentation of Greek grammar the philosophical inhistorical researches of Grimm, Bopp, and their compeers in the science of language. The result is, of found in any other Greek grammar that we are accourse, that his work has a modern appearance not quainted with. Throughout the book Dr. Curtius never fails to present the Latin analogue to the Greek word when there is one, and thus tends to present the connection of the two great classical branches of the primitive Aryan stock. The Greek dialects are also carefully distinguished. The knotty points in the Greek tenses and moods are fully explained. The syntax is very full, every important as well as every elucidation. The typography is very accurate-wonobscure point in it being subjected to analysis and derfully so for a work of this kind.-N. Y. World.

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The first attempt at a complete history of the United States. The reader who desires to inform himself in all the particulars, military or political, of the American Revolution, will find that they have been scrupulously collected for him by Mr. Hildreth.-London Athenæum. It has condensed into consecutive narrative the substance of hundreds of volumes.-London Literary Gazette.

The history of the Revolution is clearly and succinctly told.-North American Review.

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The prevailing characteristic of Hildreth's history is its stern and inflexible impartiality.-Boston Journal. The author's grouping of men and events is skillful, and renders his rapid narrative pleasant reading.N. Y. Evening Post.

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