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and the highest order of Biblical and archaeological scholar- 

 ship. The reader who desires a popular account of their 

 famous discoveries should by all means read Mrs. Gibson's 

 entertaining volume, How the Codex Was Found, and Mrs. 

 Lewis' charming little work entitled, In the Shadow of 

 Sinai. As to those men and the species is yet far from 

 extinct who still doubt the capacity of women for the 

 higher kinds of intellectual effort, let them glance at the 

 pages of the numerous volumes given to the press by these 

 richly dowered women under the captions of Studia Sinai- 

 tica and Horce Semiticce; and, if they are able to compre- 

 hend the evidence before them, they will be forced to admit 

 that the long-imagined difference between the intellectual 

 powers of men and women is one of fancy and not one of 

 reality. 1 



And yet, strange to relate, while Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. 

 Gibson were electrifying the learned world by their achieve- 



i The following partial list of the works of these erudite twins 

 on subjects connected with Scripture and Oriental literature gives 

 some idea of their extraordinary attainments and of their prodigious 

 activity in researches that are usually considered entirely foreign 

 to the tastes and aptitudes of women. 



Some Pages of the Four Gospels Retranscribed From the Sinaitic 

 Palimpsest, with a translation of the whole text by Agnes Smith 

 Lewis. 



An Arabic Version of St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans, Corin- 

 thians, Galatians and part of Ephesians. Edited from a ninth cen- 

 tury MS. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson. 



Apocrypha Sinaitica. Containing the Anaphora Pilati in Syriac 

 and Arabic: the Syriac transcribed by J. Rendel Harris, and the 

 Arabic by Margaret Dunlop Gibson; also two recensions of the Rec- 

 ognitions of Clement, in Arabic, transcribed and translated by Mar- 

 garet Dunlop Gibson. 



An Arabic Version of the Acts of the Apostles and the Seven 

 Catholic Epistles, from an eighth or ninth century MS., with a 

 treatise on the Triune Nature of God and translation. Edited by 

 Margaret Dunlop Gibson. 



Apocrypha Arabica, Edited by Margaret D. Gibson, containing 

 1, Kitab al Magall or the Boole of the Rolls; 2, The Story of the 



