Recent and Forthcoming Publications 



of The University of Chicago Press 



The Evolution of Early Christianity. By Shirley Jackson Case, 



Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation in the 

 University of Chicago. 



x+386 pages, nmo, cloth; $2.25, postage extra (weight 1 lb. 11 oz.) 



The beginnings of the Christian movement are here studied 

 from a wholly new point of view. By examining the actual 

 religious situation in which the Christians of the first century 

 lived, the author is able to shed fresh light on many parts of the 

 New Testament. Some of the subjects discussed are Christian- 

 ity's developmental nature, the importance of environment for 

 Christian origins, the early believers' Jewish connections and the 

 causes of their break with Judaism, their contact with various 

 gentile religions such as emperor worship, Stoicism, and oriental 

 mystery cults, and the ultimate triumph of Christianity. 



Water Reptiles of the Past and Present. By Samuel Wendell 



Williston, Professor of Paleontology in the University < 

 Chicago. 



viii-}-252 pages, royal 8vo, cloth; $3.00, postage extra (weight 2 lbs. 8 oz.) 



Professor Williston, who is widely known as a student of ex- 

 tinct reptiles and as the author of American Permian Vertebrates^ 

 which has now become a recognized authority, presents in this 

 new volume a summary, divested as far as possible of unneces- 

 sary scientific details, of our present knowledge concerning the 

 reptiles of the seas, lakes, and rivers of past and present times. 

 While no attempt has been made, save incidentally, to discuss 

 the strictly terrestrial reptiles, twelve of the fourteen orders of 

 the class recognized by the author are treated more or less fully 

 their structure, habits, geological distribution, etc. Unlike 

 most of the works for the general reader treating of "ancient 

 monsters," the present work is by an author who has spent many 

 years in the field and laboratory in the collection and study of 

 extinct reptiles, upon which he has an international reputation 

 as an authority. 



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