The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
With Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation
Translations, Bibliographies, etc., by the following Leading Orientalists:
In America:
Morris Jastrow, LL.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania; James H. Breasted, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University of Chicago; Charles C. Torrey, D.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, Yale University; A. V. W. Jackson, LL.D., Professor of Indo- Iranian, Columbia University; Charles R. Lanman, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard University; Rev. Charles F. Aiken, S.T.D., Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University; Friedrich Hirth, LL.D., Professor of Chinese, Columbia University; Rev. William E. Griffis, D.D., former Professor at the Imperial University, Tokio.
In Europe:
E. A. W. Budge, F.S.A., Director of Egyptology in the British Museum; Sir Gaston Maspero, D.C.L., Member of the Royal Institute of France; Rev. A. H. Sayce, LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford University; W. Flinders-Petrie, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University College, London; Stephen Langdon, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, Oxford University; Sir Ernest Satow, LL.D., G.C.M.G., British Minister to Japan; H. Oldenberg, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Kiel University; T. W. Rhys-Davids, LL.D., Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society; Arminius Vambéry, LL.D., Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Budapest.
In Asia:
Sir M. Coomara Swamy, Legislative Council of Ceylon; Romesh Chunder Dutt, C.I.E., Author of the History of Civilization in Ancient India; Darab D. P. Sanjana, Educational Society of Bombay; Viscount Kencho Suyematsu, LL.M., Japanese Minister of the Interior; Sheik Faiz-Ullah-Bhai, Head Master of the Schools of Anjuman-i-Islam; Ralph T. Griffith, President Benares College, India; Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, Fellow of Bombay University, Officier de l'Académie Française.
Under the editorship of a staff of specialists directed by
Prof. Charles F. Horne, Ph.D.
Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb, Inc.
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