3 SEPTEMBER 1904, Page 24

A Short History of Ancient Egypt. By Percy E. Newberry

and John Garstang. (A. Constable and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This is a quite admirable little book, containing in its hundred-odd pages as clear and sufficient an outline of Egyptian history as could possibly be put into so small a space. The description of the country in the first chapter is as good a thing of the kind as we have ever seen. Very good, too, is the account of the influence of the country on human development. The succession of the dynasties is traced as clearly as materials which are not by any means complete allow. The authors, we see, limit the Hebrew sojourn to a period between the conquests of Rameses and some date unknown in the reign of his successor. They do not accept the suggestion which connects it with the Ilyksos dominion.