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he has deciphered the Hittite Inscriptions, and that he has

con- structed out of them, together with Egyptian, Assyrian, and Hebrew records, a history of the Hittite people from three genera- tions before Abraham downwards. He finds the Hittites every- where. In fact, that great element of the human race which some have called Turanian, he calls Hittite. The Ilyksos, the tribes of Canaan, the Pelasgi, if it was the Pelasgi who "gave to Greece her mythology and sacred rites," the Basques, and we know not how many other nations, including the mysterious race which founded the empires of Mexico and Peru, were Hittites, in Professor Campbell's opinion. These things we leave in medio, not feeling able to go beyond this very brief description of Professor Camp- bell's book.