BOOK NOTICES. O88 
So far as we know, this is the most comprehensive and complete work of the 
kind ever published, and as such it has received the commendations of some of 
the best scholars in the country, like Prof. McCloskie, Wendell Phillips, Gen. 
Noyes and Pres. C. H. Payne, D. D., all of whom concur in attributing to it 
correctness, convenience, and condensation of knowledge to a degree unsur- 
passed by any other work. 
For the use of teachers, students, writers, and for the home circle, nothing 
equal to it has ever come under our observation. A key, comprising over fifty 
pages octavo, accompanies each chart, and gives full explanations of the progress 
-of events in each century. 
Ray’s New HicHEer ARITHMETIC: By Joseph Ray, M. D.: pp. 408, 12 mo.: 
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Cincinnati and New York, 1880. 
While Doctor Ray’s name remains upon the title page of this work, it has 
been so thoroughly changed by the late revision that it is really almost a new 
book, and should properly be credited to other sources. The complete revision 
was performed by our own fellow citizen, Professor J. M. Greenwood, to whom 
the publishers freely express their obligations. Nearly every chapter has been re- 
written and much new and original matter has been introduced, and all obsolete 
matter has been discarded. The result is that it is thoroughly modernized and 
practical, and just such a guide as the older scholars in the schools need to fit 
them for the ordinary avocations of business life. At the same time it is so ar- 
ranged and graded as to fit the student who wishes to do so to enter easily upon 
a course of higher mathematics. Prof. Greenwood is entitled to and has received 
the highest commendations for the faithfulness and capability he has displayed in 
this work. 
THe TRUE STORY OF THE ExopDUS OF ISRAEL, compiled by Francis H. Under- 
wood, 12mo., pp. 260. Boston, Lee & Shepard, $1.50. 
The positive declarations of Dr. Brugsch-Bey in regard to the route of the 
children of Israel in escaping from Egypt, not by crossing the Red Sea, but by 
passing northwardly far above the upper end of the Red Sea, between the Medi- 
terranean Sea and what was anciently known as Lake Serbonis, on the flat shores 
of which the disaster to the Egyptians occurred ; thence abruptly turning south- 
wardly at the eastern extremity of the last named lake and reaching Elim, in 
Palestine, by way of the bitter lakes of Suez and the eastern shore of the Gulf of 
_ Suez, have aroused quite a spirit of investigation and inquiry among Bible read- 
_ ers, as well as most other classes of readers, and the compilation prepared by Mr. 
Underwood from his costly volumes ($12,00) will be gladly received. 
It must not, however, be supposed that this question alone is discussed by 
the editor. He has very carefully extracted from these volumes a large amount 
of important information upon the origin of the Ancient Egyptians; the division 
