Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Street of Human Habitations
The first three chapters of this volume were already in my publisher's hands when M. Maspero's charming account of the ancient Egyptians and Assyrians appeared - perhaps the most popular book on the sub jcet that has ever been written. My Egyptian and Assyrian chapters were originally written for and produced in Science and Art, but the space available for illustrations was small, and on revising them for publication in book form, I accepted most gratefully the offer of such illustrations as I might select from M. Maspero's work. I make this statement because of a certain similarity in the conception of M. Maspero's work and mine, and it is due to the former to say that, dealing with two instead of nine races of men, the author has given much delightful detail which is not included in this book while to myself is due the statement that the latter was entirely mapped out in ignorance of the other work in progress at the same time.
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