The Tell - El - Arnarna Tablets in the British Museum. Edited by Dr.
C. Bezold. (Longmans, Quaritch, and others.)—This is one of the volumes of fac-similes by the publication of which the Trustees of the Museum are doing such excellent service to the study of ancient history. The introduction and summary are the
joint work of Dr. C. Bezold and Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, Dr. Bezold being the editor of the volume. The tablets dealt with are eighty-two in number, and are, with one exception, letters or despatches relating to Egyptian affairs, personal and public. The first four are the most important, relating as they do to the marriage alliances of the Egyptian Kings Amenophis III. and IV., Princes of the eighteenth dynasty, with Mesopotamian rulers. Despatches from Governors of various subject towns in Palestine and elsewhere are included in the collection. They belong, gener- ally speaking, to about 1500 B.C. Students of Egyptian history will find most valuable material in them.
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