The Progress and Prospects of Oriental Discovery [pp. 476-493]

490 THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF [July,
(1865) his History of the Empires of Chaid~a and Assyria,
accord?n~ to the Monuments, which appeared in the Annales
de Philosophie Chr6tienne.
Joachim Menant's publications have been his Cuneiform
Writings (I 86o and 1864); Assyrian Inscriptions on the
Bricks of Babylon (i 85~); Inscriptions of Hammonrabi, King
of Babylon (1863); The Grand h'scription of the Palace of
Khorsabad, in which the author was assisted by Oppert;
An Assyrian Syllabary; and among others, the most important, perhaps, of all his works, Annals of the Kings of Assyria (1874). Besides these, must be mentioned his History
of Assyrian Discovery and his Assyrian Grammar.
The Manual of the A ncient History of the East, by Francois
Lenormant and E. Chevallier, republished in this country (1871),
presents a lucid summary of the results of Oriental discovery in
connection with ancient nations. The authors trace the history of the Israelites, the Egyptians, the Assyrians and Babylonians, the Medes and Persians, Pheenicians and Arabians,
and incidentally of several other peoples less c?nspicuous.
They avail themselves of the labors of those who had preceded
them in the field, and endeavor to present a connected view of
the career and fortunes of ancient empires, in which the statements of the old historians are criticised, or harmonized, with
the results of modern research with a precision that some might
deem extravagant. The Etudes Accadiennes of Lenormant
appeared in 1873.
In addition to the works already mentioned, the following
should be noted: The Val'tes of the Cuneiform Characters
(1871); Annals of Assurbanipal (i87i); and Assyrian Discoveries
(1875), by George Smith; Assyrian Grammar, by A. H. Sayce;
numerous papers in the Athenceum and other journals, by Dr.
Hincks; Norris' Assyrian Dictionary, in three volumes (I 86872); Fox Talbot's papers in various journals; Dr. Schrader's
Essays on the Assyro-Babylonian Inscriptions, published in Zeitschrift d. d. Morgen. Gesell. 1872, and his Die KcilinsJiriften und
das alte Testament, of the same date.
The publications of Mr. George Smith of the British Museum,
issued within a recent period, show that what some might
have anticipated as but gleanings, have turned out to be a rich
barvest. That the field, far from being exhausted, is as yet but