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 7o6 Notes and News The third volume of the History of Egypt (pp. 406), pubHshed by Scribner's, extends from the nineteenth to the thirtieth dynasties and is by W. M. FHnders Petrie. The book is solidly packed with facts, and includes translations of documents and many illustrations. The Archeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions (S.P.C.K., pp. 220), by the Rev. A. H. Sayce, embodies the Rhind lectures on archaeology which Professor Sayce delivered at Edinburgh last October, and also an article published in the Contemporary Rcvieiv in August, 1905. The next volume in the series of publications of the President White School of History and Political Science at Cornell will be the enlarged doctoral thesis of Albert T. Olmstead, entitled Sargon and Western Asia in His Time, 722-^05 B. C, the materials for which were collected when the author accompanied Professor Nathaniel Schmidt's expedition through Syria and Palestine in 1904-1905. Old Babylonian Temple Records, by Dr. R. J. Lau, forms the third volume in the Columbia University Oriental Studies (Macmillan). Late Babylonian Letters (pp. xxxvi, 226), by R. C. Thompson, is a volume of transliterations and translations of letters in Babylonian cuneiform, chiefly during the reigns of Nabonidus, Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius, published in Luzac's Semitic Text and Translation Series. Professor T. D. Seymour's Life in the Homeric Age (Macmillan, 1906) attempts to state as the poet presents them the facts relating to the civilization of the age. Life in Ancient Athens: the Social and Public Life of a Classical Athenian from Day to Day, by Professor T. G. Tucker, is a recent ad- dition to the series of Handbooks of Archaeology and Antiquities pub- lished by Macmillan. The book contains many illustrations. Schools of Hellas: a Study of the Practice and Theory of Greek Education in the Classical Period, by the late K. J. Freeman, has been edited by Mr. M. J. Kendall and will shortly be published by Messrs. Macmillan. The first part of the book deals with education in Sparta and Crete, Athens, and the rest of Greece. Separate chapters are de- voted to primary, physical, and secondary education and one relates to the Ephebi and the University. The second part treats of the theory of education. L'Aventin dans VAntiquitc (Paris, Fontemoing. 1906, pp. 476), by A. Merlin, which forms the ninety-seventh fascicle of the Bibliothcque dcs £coles Francoises d'Athenes et de Rome, is a careful and detailed study based upon documentary evidence and a study of the locality. Decimiis Junius Brutus Albinus (University of Chicago Press. 1907, pp. 113) is the subject of a Chicago doctoral dissertation by B. C. Bon- durant, whose interpretation of the motives and conduct of Decimus Brutus differs essentially from that given in M. Paulus's dissertation on the same subject (Miinster, 1889).