THE CITIES AND BISHOPRICS OF PHRYGIA,
The Lycos Valley and South-Western Phrygla. With Maps, Royal 8vo, linen, price Eighteen Shillings Net.
"The book is an admirable example of the most modern methods of archaeological and geographical research and of the scientific method of reconstruct- ing ancient history by a study of all the materials — not merely by ingenious meditations on printed texts, but by a personal examina- tion of the ground by digging, by exploring, by the careful copying of inscriptions, and by bringing to bear upon the first- hand knowledge thus obtained an adequate acquaintance with all that the ancient writers and
the best modern commentators have said on the subject." — Times.
"A more worthy task — for this volume contains such sin- gular erudition, such original and independent reasoning and evi- dence of such unique observation and research, as to be little affected by criticism of method and form — is to point out its ex- traordinary value to all students, not only of Anatolian matters, but of the Hellenistic period, ot Roman provincial organization everywhere, of Christian doctrine
and ecclesiastical history, and of the advance of Islam. More than that, it affords an object lesson of the best kind in the province of archaeological re- search and the right application of its results to history. Professor Ramsay grasps with a sure hand epigraphy, numismatics, philo- logy, geography, and bends all to his purposes. Every inscrip- tion that he reproduces in this volume gains in lucidity and authority by his handling of it ; and of every city which he treats we rest assured that we now know all that is to be known at the present moment, and far more than has been known at any previous moment since the East shut out the West from " Anatolia." — Athenceum.
" Among the solutions of older problems of history and topo- graphy to which Professor Ram-
say has been led, the most strik- ing, perhaps, is his opinion (not however presented as verified) that the ancient Empire, of which Pteria was the capital and Phrygia a part, was the same that under king Khitasar headed the com- bination of the Khita against Rameses II. in the great wars in Northern Syria chronicled in the Egyptian records. Interesting light on the early history of Christianity, in a region that was one of the first where it gathered strength and become a great political and social as well as religious force, is promised from an important and unmatched series of pre-Constantinian in- scriptions. For this, however, scholars will have to wait for the appearance of the next volume of Professor Ramsay's erudite work . ' ' — Scotstnan.