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publication of the accompanying work has occupied an unusually long period, owing to the typographical difficulties which were presented by the great number of small woodcuts required for its illustration.

One consequence of this has been, the appearance in that interval of the American edition of Professor Hengstenberg’s “Egypt and the Books of Moses,” in which the subject of “the service of the tabernacle” is illustrated in a similar manner. It is hoped, however, that even upon this subject, some not unimportant additions will be found to the valuable collections of this justly celebrated biblical critic.

The author has also taken advantage of this delay, carefully to reconsider the whole of the evidence upon