26 JANUARY 1889, Page 44

In the series entitled "By-Paths of Biblical Knowledge," we have

The Hittites : the Story of a Forgotten Empire, by A. H. Sayee, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)—Professor Sayce popularises, with the skill which we are accustomed to associate with his pen, the results that have of late years been arrived at in this branch of historical research, especially as shown in Dr. Wright's great book on "The Empire of the Hittites." A very interesting story he makes of these remarkable discoveries, which, indeed, have revealed many things absolutely unsuspected less than half a generation ago.