By Prof. G. MASPERO. 



The greatest and most scholarly work on the history of 

 the Ancient World. 



The Passing of the Empires 



(Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, and Medea), 

 850 B. C. to 330 B. C. 



By Prof. G. Maspero, author of " The Dawn of Civiliza- 

 tion " and "The Struggle of the Nations." Edited by 

 the Rev. Prof A. H. Sayce. Translated by M. L. 

 McClure. With Maps and numerous Illustrations, in- 

 cluding three Colored Plates. Uniform edition. 4to. 

 Cloth, $7.50. 



" \Yith this magnificent volume Professor Maspero completes his 

 great task, which has extended over nearly seven years, of vifriting a 

 history of the Oriental world from the earliest times down to the death 

 of Darius. The work has been great, as the progress of Oriental re- 

 search has been so rapid, and discoveries so numerous, that to attain 

 any finality seemed impossible ; but the author has neglected nothing, 

 and indeed the footnotes to these volumes show an almost herculean 

 labor of research among authorities in every land and every tongue, 

 and add immensely to the value of the work." — Chronicle (London). 



" For learning and industry, Professor Maspero's epoch-making 

 series on the ' History of the Ancient Peoples of the Classic East ' 

 deserves to be called monumental. . . The work is a remarkably full 

 encyclopEedia of the subject of which it treats, though arranged in 

 chronological and not in alphabetical order. Owing to these charac- 

 teristics it is indispensable as a book of reference. . . . ' The Passing 

 of the Empires,' whatever be its imperfections or blemishes, is the 

 completion of a prodigious achievement, and its usefulness will be in 

 proportion to the labor it has cost." — Sunday-School Times. 



D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. 



