Asiatic Quarterly Review (Full Title: The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review, and Oriental and Colonial Record): Volume XIII, No. 26 [‎545v] (215/238)

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Our Library Table.
On Traces of an Indefinite Article in Assyrian, by R. CampbellThompson,
m.a., Assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities,
British Museum. (London: David Nutt, 57, Long Acre, 1902.)
Mr. Thompson in his reading and copying certain Babylonian and Assyrian
cuneiform texts preserved in the Museum,'has noted from time to time a
considerable number of passages in which the case-endings of the noun
have been dropped, notwithstanding the fact that the noun is obviously not
in the construct state. Other Assyrian scholars have noticed the same
thing. Mr. Thompson in his short treatise discusses the whole matter,
and gives beautifully executed representations of inscriptions, illustrating
his conclusions. The treatise will prove interesting to all Assyrian
scholars.
Presidential Address of the Seventeenth Indian National Congress,
Calcutta, December 26 to 30, 190X. The President, Mr. D. E. Wacha.
This important address deals with a variety of subjects, such as famine, in
its various aspects, State and private relief, the policy of administration,
agrarian legislation, irrigation versus railways, agricultural banks, grain
storage, the condition of the masses, the economic evils of absenteeism,
Indian finance, taxation and currency, military and other public expendi
ture, industrial development, and other public questions, all of which
deserve the close and sincere attention of the Government, and the
statesmen who control Indian affairs both at home and in India.
The Briton’s First Duty : the Case for Conscription. Cheap edition.
Revised throughout. By George F. Shee, M.A. (with an introduction by
Colonel Lonsdale Hale). With diagrams. (London : The Army League
and Imperial Defence Association, 8, King Street, Cheapside, E.C., 1901.)
A well-written patriotic production, showing the necessity for more
vigorous action towards home defence as the heart and keynote of the
defence of the whole Empire. The diagrams are very instructive,
interesting and important, and ought to be carefully studied by every
citizen who loves his country and homestead.
The Things Above: Helps Heavenward (second series), by George G.
Findlay, b.a., d.d. (London : Charles H. Kelly, 2, Castle Street, City
Road, E.C., and 26, Paternoster Row, E.C., 1901.) This volume forms
part of the second series entitled “ Helps Heavenward.” It embraces, among
other subjects, “Coming to Mount Zion,” “Serving and Waiting,” “Maran
Atha,” the “Ascension,” and “ Resurrection.” The author’s style is clear
and laconic, as will be seen from the following quotation : “ Without the
sun in heaven there is neither day nor life ; and without God and the
immortal future there is neither man nor duty, neither safe guidance nor a
worthy end for our present faith.” The perusal of the work will be highly
profitable and refreshing to the Christian.
Books for Bible Students, edited by the Rev. Arthur E. Gregory, d.d.,
Principal of the Children’s Home. The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to
Timothy and Titus, by R. Martin Pope, m.a. (London: Charles H.
Kelly, 2, Castle Street, City Road, and 26, Paternoster Row, E.C., 1901.)
A very useful and valuable work, not only to students of the Greek text,
but also to lay preachers and Christian workers.