THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 



BOOKS IN PRESS 



Old Testament and Semitic Studies in Memory of William Rainey 



Harper 



Edited by ROBERT FRANCIS HARPER of the University of Chicago, 



FRANCIS BROWN of Union Theological Seminary, and GEORGE 

 FOOT MOORE of Harvard University 



2 volumes, each about 400 pages, royal 8vo, cloth; net $10.00, postage extra 



The collection contains a portrait and an account of the life and work of William 

 Rainey Harper. An edition of seven hundred copies will be printed from the type. Sold by 

 subscription only. 



Descriptive Geography of Palestine 



By PROFESSOR LEWIS BAYLES PATON, of Hartford Theological Seminary 



96 pages, 8vo, cloth 



Recent residence in Jerusalem and a thorough study of the literature, both ancient and 

 modern, have qualified the author of this little volume to write interestingly and authori- 

 tatively on the topography and archaeology of the Holy Land. The facts as presented are 

 precisely those which the student of the Bible needs to know. The book will be fully illus- 

 trated, and will constitute a notable contribution to the subject. 



Sidelights on Biblical Chronology, Part i 



By OLAF A. TOFFTEEN, Professor of Semitic Languages and Old Testament 



Literature in the Western Theological Seminary 



250 pages, 8yo, cloth 



This is an examination of the data furnished by the monuments bearing on biblical his- 

 tory, and constitutes an elaboration of the first chapter in Ancient Chronology. W^hile it 

 would be perhaps too much to say that Dr. Toffteen reaches conclusions altogether new, he 

 has displayed the same independence of research and reasoning which characterizes his treat- 

 ment of the broader subject of "ancient chronology." The result is an able, fearless, and 

 scholarly statement of views concerning historical data of the Bible. 



Value and Distribution 



lERBERT J. DAVENPO 



the University of Chicago 



Economy in 



500 pages, 8vo, cloth 



The author thus defines his position in his preface: "Since the time of Adam Smith, 

 economic theory has been in possession of doctrines enough for a reasonably complete, con- 

 sistent, and logical system of thought— if only those doctrines had been, with a wise eclec- 

 ticism, properly combined and articulated. The emphasis in the present volume upon the 

 entrepreneur point of view in the computation of costs and in the analysis of the process by 

 which distributive shares are assigned, has nothing new in it; it was necessary only that the 

 point of view be clearly distinguished, consistently held, and fully developed." 



The Process of Government : A study of Social Pressures 



By ARTHUR F. BENTLEY 



432 pages, 8vo, cloth 



The author gives a critical review of current analyses of the process of government, 

 and then elaborates a theory in which "social pressures"— i. e., the stresses exerted by 

 the various social elements— are treated as a basic factor. The work is not intended for the 

 general reader, the technical vocabulary of political science being freelv used. 



