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placing before them quotations from German professors, etc., at 
considerable length. Indeed, other matters in the letters and lec- 
ture have little to do with the subject of my paper, and a critic in 
the Zzmes appears to be as much surprised as the writer at the late- 
ness of what was known to many outside Germany for years. It 
seems to be as far behind in antiquarian research as our own 
Ontario clery themselves. 
I wonder if many of them ever remarked the following, taken 
from the London 7Zzmes: We must say, remarks a critic in the 
London Zzmes, we are extremely puzzled to know what all this out- 
burst of wrath on the part of the Evangelical party is about. Dr. 
Delitzsch, in his two famous discourses, has said nothing more than 
may be found in a dozen English works, which are supremely 
orthodox, besides such works as Professor Duff’s ‘‘ Hebrew Ethics.” 
Many critics of the modern school will wonder on reading this 
work, not at what the Dr. as said, but rather at what he has not 
said, ‘The controversy has certainly done good in drawing some 
valuable notes from the author—that on the Sabbath being very 
important. The Sabbath was essentially a priestly function in 
Babylonia, and as such foun? its way into the Hebrew code. It is 
never found in any civil dccument. The writer adds that the real 
cause is an attempt on the part of the orthodox school in Germany 
to keep the general public in the dark as to the real bearing of 
Assyriological research ; and now that the hidden knowledge has 
passed beyond the portals of the university the consternation is 
great. 
A work, entitled “‘The First of Empires—Babylon of the Bible 
in the light of recent research,” by W. St. Chad Boscawen—a history 
of the ancient empire from the earliest times to the consolidation 
of the empire in 2000 B. C., has lately been published in England 
(The American Edition by Harper Brothers, New York). The 
work itself the writer has not seen yet, but he is in possession of 
many extracts. It is a most fascinating yolume, remarks a critic— 
illustrative of the extraordinary results of scientific historical research. 
We are carried off at one gigantic step for close on six thousand 
years, and the remarkable feature is that one feels convinced he is 
reading authentic history. The author insists (rightly in the 
opinion of the critic) that some of the most cherished beliefs of the 
