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Studies in Galilee. By Ernest W. Gurney Masterman. 
Profusely illustrated, 170 pages, 8vo, cloth; net $1.00, postpaid $1.12 
Besides the Memoir of the Survey under the Palestine Explora- 
tion Fund, and the relevant chapters in works dealing with the 
whole country, several learned monographs have been written in 
English and German upon the geography, the history, the archae- 
ology, and the present dialect of Galilee. Among these Dr. 
Masterman’s book will take a place of its own. It furnishes 
fresh and notable contributions to our knowledge of this famous 
region. It is richly stored with facts; it is lucidly written; and 
cannot fail to prove alike valuable to the expert and interesting to 
the ordinary reader. Dr. Masterman has labored for sixteen or 
seventeen years in the East and studied the land and the people 
minutely. His numerous papers in journals devoted to the his- 
tory or the geography of the Holy Land prove his acquaintance 
with the literature, ancient and modern, and have been largely 
used by experts. Very few know the recent history of the land 
or the life of the people like himself. 
Researches in Biblical Archaeology, Volume II: The Historic 
Exodus. By Olaf A. Toffieen, Professor of Semitic Languages 
and Old Testament Literature in the Western Theological Semit- 
nary. Published by the University of Chicago Press for the 
Oriental Society of that institution. : 
360 pages, 8vo, cloth; net $2.50, postpaid $2.72 
This volume deals with the historicity of the biblical story of 
the Exodus. In order to set this forth, the author enters into a 
serious examination of the evolutionary hypothesis of modern 
higher criticism, and then appeals to the monuments, in the light 
of which the Exodus is studied. 
New viewpoints and interpretations, ingenious suggestions, 
and a fascinating reconstruction of the history of the time appear 
on almost every page. 
As the book is written in popular style, easy to grasp at every 
point, even by the layman who may not be versed in technicalities 
of this kind, it is eminently adapted alike for the religious reader 
and the student of history. 
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