es of the Hindoos, by Monier
Williams, M. A., Prof. of Sanscrit in the University of Oxford. London:
W. H. Allen, 1875.

----. Hinduism; by Monier Williams, M. A., D. C. L., Published
under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and
Education Appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge. London: 1877.

WISDOM (APOC.). The Book of Wisdom, Attributed to Solomon, King of
Israel.

WISE (ISAAC M.). The Martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth. A Historic Treatise
on the Last Chapters of the Gospel, by Dr Isaac M. Wise. Cincinnati.

ADDITIONS TO THIRD EDITION.

Beausobre's _Histoire Critique de Manichee et du Manicheisme_, Amsterdam
1734; Baronius' _Annales Ecclesiastici_; Hydes' _Historia Religionis
Veterum Persarum_; Rawlinson's _Herodotus_; Lenormant's _The Beginnings
of History_; Hardwick's _Christ and other Masters_; Daille's _Treatise
on the Right Use of the Fathers_, London, 1841; _Apollonius de Tyana, sa
vie, ses voyages, et ses prodiges_, par Philostrate, Paris, 1862; Sir
John Malcolm's _History of Persia_, in 2 vols., London, 1815; Michaelis'
_Introduction to the New Testament_, in 4 vols. edited by Dr. Herbert
Marsh, London, 1828; Archbishop Wake's _Genuine Epistles of the
Apostolical Fathers_, London, 1719; Jeremiah Jones' _Canon of the New
Testament_, in 3 vols., Oxford, 1793; Milman's _History of
Christianity_; Barrow's _Travels in China_, London, 1840; Deane's
_Worship of the Serpent_, London, 1883; Baring-Gould's _Lost and Hostile
Gospels_, London, 1874; B. F. Westcott's _Survey of the History of the
Canon of the New Testament_, 4th Edit., London, 1875; Mosheim's
_Ecclesiastical History_, in 6 vols., Amer. ed. 1810; J. W. Rosses'
_Tacitus and Bracciolini_, London, 1878; and the writings of the
Christian Fathers, Justin Martyr, St. Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus,
Origen, Tertullian and Minucius Felix.

BIBLE MYTHS.

PART I.

THE OLD TESTAMENT.

CHAPTER I.

THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN.

The Old Testament commences with one of its most interesting myths, that
of the Creation and Fall of Man. The story is to be found in the first
_three_ chapters of Genesis, the substance of which is as follows:

After God created the "Heavens" and the "Earth," he said: "Let there be
light, and there was light," and after calling the light Day, and the
darkness Night, the _first_ day's work was ended.

God then made the "Firmament," which completed the