the American the medal of Societies. admirable illus cient Scriptural Geography. 1612. 1768-1779. Galileo, the friend of John the satellites of Jupiter. Robinson, the American traveller and divine, were most Prof. Robinson, important, and publicly acknowledged by the Geographical divine, received Societies of Berlin, Paris, and London; and Colonel three foreign Chesney's determination of Scripture Geography, in his Col. Chesney's admirable ‘Narrative and Survey of the Euphrates and tration of AnTigris,' is most important and gratifying to the geographer and geologist. The works of the Creator, like his Word, have been chiefly discovered within the last four centuries. We need scarcely allude to the voyages of Vasco de 1492–1498. Gama, of Cabot and Columbus, made known by the invention of printing, the voyages of Tasman and Cook, the researches of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Laplace, Linnæus, and Cuvier, and recent voyagers, astronomers, chemists, naturalists, and anatomists. So is it with the Word. Like the works of the same author, it is inexhaustible. One generation discovers the satellites of Jupiter, another derives, from their occultations, calculations for the Nautical Almanac,' enabling sailors to find their longitude, in a way that would have been deemed witchcraft three hundred years ago. discovers the scientific principle of "latent heat." carries out the application of the principle in the steamengine. Stephenson applies the locomotive to the steamengine-hence our rapid travelling. Franklin, with his kite in a thunder storm, led naturally to Wheatstone and Schelling with the electric telegraph. How possible it is, Electric Teleby railways, to get parcels and passengers transmitted from distant points in a short time, never entered into the heads of that generation, whose coachmen used to drive so furiously the four-horsed mail some sixteen years ago. The laying down of an electric telegraph from Old York to New York, depends on railway communication between York and Dover, Calais and Constantinople, Constantinople and Calcutta, Calcutta and the Asiatic side of Black Nautical Alma nac' and Longi. tude. Watt 1759-1763. 1765 and 1775. Within the last forty years. graph. North to the South of Russia depends on free trade being introduced into China. A practical generation, mak Railway from the Behring's straits, the American side of Behring's straits and California and New York, so that lines only have to be submerged in the sea between Dover and Calais, and across Behring's straits, and in a few minutes a message might be delivered between York in European England and its greater namesake in the United States of North America. This would, sixteen years ago, have been ROMANCE; it is now, 1851, within thirty or fifty ing use of gutta- years perhaps of being FACT: so is it with the Word; the interpretation of it grows, and there are truths in it to be developed, of which this generation is yet ignorant,— a generation which, by the Daguerreotype, can fix an public libraries, image in three minutes; by the Electric Telegraph can send or receive, in three minutes, a message to or from a place 500 or 5000 miles off; gets each week, perhaps, 100,000 copies of an Illustrated London News,' with woodcuts of actions of war, or scenes of peace, enacted or drawn in some foreign land only a month before. percha, and gold discoveries, to promote the dispersion of a superabundant population ;-a generation of open museums, geological and mineralogical surveys, and zoological and botanical gardens, and inquiries and lectures by Professors Airey, Faraday, etc.; and which purchases and reads penny cyclopædias. It is Written: or, the Plenary Holy Scriptures.' Abraham saw more clearly than Job,-Solomon than Abraham, Isaiah than Solomon,- and the apostle Peter than Isaiah. We know the proofs of fulfilled prophecy better than Bishop Newton: the Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures,' by Thomas Hartwell Horne, B. D., Kitto's Biblical Cyclopædia,' and Gaussen's 'Theopneustia,' are books full of illustrations, most of Inspiration of the them unknown to a previous generation. "If the vision tarry-wait for it," is our command. He who said, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Father,” and "every hair of your head is numbered," in other words, who taught the doctrine of "a minute Providence," placed the names of Egyptian kings in Scripture, led Dr. Young to the interpretation of Hieroglyphics, placed the names of dukes of Edom in the Bible, and sent Laborde to Idumea,-Botta, Layard, and Rawlinson to discoveries and researches in Assyria. There are other lessons besides those of art, archæology, and geography, to be derived from the Remains in the British Museum. "The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here." (Mat. xii. 41.) It is to be hoped that so active and able a collector and student, as Dr. Layard has proved himself to be, will meet with every support from the Trustees of the British Museum. They have shown, by their selection of the Elgin and Towneley marbles, how judiciously and admirably Art of the highest kind may be taught,—by their Lycian, Etruscan, and Egyptian monuments, how early art, archæology, and historical illustration may be exhibited, and, by their Assyrian and Shemitic monuments, what stores of illustrations are in their Museum, for art, archæology, and history. 66 aid derived Of evidence from monuments, erect, Prostrate, or leaning towards their common rest In earth, the widely-scattered wreck sublime Of vanished nations, or more clearly drawn From books, and what they picture and record. WORDSWORTH.-Prelude, p. 232, book viii. SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES-FOR THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME." P. S.-The author means, if time be allowed him, to extend the matter hinted at in pp. 13, 14, and 15, into a small volume. ANCIENT EGYPT; HER TESTIMONY TO THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE. With very numerous Engravings and Coloured Plates. CONTENTS OF THE WORK. First Colonisation of Egypt.-Ancient Geography.-The Tomb of Pihrai, at Beni Hassan, in Middle Egypt.-Wars of Sethos with the Canaanites.-Wars of Ramses II., Sesostris, and Ramses IV., with the Canaanites.-The Tyrians.The Arvadites and Hermonites.-The Sidonians.-The Zuzim.-The Jebusites. -The Hittites.-The Amorites.-The TIN.-The Philistines.-The Hamathites or Syrians.-Vases of the Canaanites.-Canaanitish Names at Ipsambul, Thebes, etc., and from the Triumphs of Sethos at Karnak.-Names of the Places in Judea conquered by Pharaoh Shishak.-North eternal Wall of the Palace at Karnak.-Chiefs of the Shethites who made a Treaty with Sesostris, in the Twenty-first year of his Reign.-Gods of Canaan, written in Hieroglyphics on the Temples of Egypt.-SERVICE of the TABERNACLE.-Metals.-Overlaying.Casting. Beaten Work.-Wool, Hair, and Flax.-Leather.-Wood and Carpentry. The Saw.-Oil and Spices.-Precious Stones.-Stringed Instruments.The Harp. The Lyre.-The Psaltery.-The Lute.-Wind Instruments.-Timbrels and similar Instruments.—Cymbals.—Singing.—Song.—The Concerted Music of the Egyptians. "Those who have occupied themselves with Egyptian antiquities, seem by common consent to have rejected the aid of the Bible (the only book in existence which professes to be contemporary with them), and to have relied upon the classical authorities, the earliest of which dates at least 1000 years later than the temples on which these reliefs occur, so that they could not possibly contain anything beyond vague and obscure traditions of a period so remote. This, it is the object of this work to show, has been the principal cause of the failure in interpreting the wonderful reliefs and pictures of the temples and monuments." Octavo, price 14s., cloth extra. "IT IS WRITTEN: ов, 99 EVERY WORD AND EXPRESSION CONTAINED IN THE SCRIPTURES PROVED TO BE FROM GOD. FROM THE FRENCH OF PROFESSOR GAUSSEN. A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS AN ARGUMENT HISTORICAL ACCURACY OF THE SCRIPTURES As proved by certain Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian Remains preserved in the British Museum. By ARACHNOPHILUS. Being the substance of a Lecture delivered to a Society in London, in 1851. Price SIXPENCE; or, with Two Lithographic Plates, ONE SHILLING. SAMUEL BAGSTER AND SONS, |