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ments in the highest form of scholarship, the slow-moving 

 University of Cambridge was gravely debating "whether 

 it was a proper thing to confer degrees upon women, ' ' and 

 preparing to answer the question in the negative. The 

 fact that there were "representatives of the unenfran- 

 chised sex at their gates who had gathered more laurels 

 in the field of scholarship than most of those who belong 

 to the privileged sex ' ' did not appeal to the university dons 

 or prevent them from putting themselves on record as 

 favoring a condition of things which, at this late age of 

 the world, should be expected only among the women- 

 enslaving followers of Mohammed. 



The saying that "a prophet hath no honor in his own 

 country" was fulfilled to the letter in the case of the two 



AphiJcia Wife of Jesus Ben Sir a (Carshuni) ; 3, Cyprian and Just a, 

 in Arabic and Greek. 



Select Narratives of Holy Women, from the Syro-Antiochene or 

 Sinai Palimpsest, as written above the Old Syriac Gospels in A. D. 

 778. Translation by Agnes Smith Lewis. 



Apocrypha Syriaca Sinaitica, being the ProtevangeUum Jacobi 

 and Transitus Marice, from a Palimpsest of the fifth or sixth century. 

 Edited by Agnes Smith Lewis. 



Forty-One Facsimiles of Dated Christian Arabic Manuscripts, 

 with Text and English Translation, arranged by Agnes Smith Lewis 

 and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, with introductory observations in 

 Arabic calligraphy by the Eev. David S. Margoliouth. 



The Didascalia Apostolorum in Syriac, edited from a Mesopo- 

 tamian MS, with various readings and collations of other MS, by 

 Margaret Dunlop Gibson. 



The Arabic Version of the Acta Apocrypha Apostolorum, edited 

 and translated by Agnes Smith Lewis, with fifth century fragments 

 of the Acta Thomce, in Syriac. 



The Gospel of Isbodad in Syriac and English, by Margaret D. 

 Gibson. 



Acta Mythologica Apostolorum in Arabic, with translation by 

 Agnes Smith Lewis. 



For an elaborate and sympathetic account of the labors and dis- 

 coveries of Mrs. Lewis and her sister, the reader is referred to an 

 article from the pen of the learned Professor V. Eyssel, in the 

 Schweiserische Theologische Zeitschrift, XVI, Jahrgang, 1899. 



