PREFACE. WHEN the news reached England that Mr. Layard had found the long lost Ninereh, and was opening its buried palaces to the light, very great and general interest ims escitecl. It seemed as if the Nineveh of the Bible were about to be once more re- stored for the contemplation of the Christian inquirer, and the Ninereh of the classics laid bare to modern gaze, to verify the faith of the scholar in the older historians. Mr. Layard9s book, when published, realized these anticipations. A city buried for more than twenty centuries offered its remains for comparison with the aspects of modern London or Paris and the sculp- tured monuments of a bygone race rose up to offer a contrast with the works of modern art. TVhilst this was the case in England, the French were almost equally interested, for they, too, had a diligent inquirer, Monsieur Botta, in Assyria, cligging and discovering and sending homc the spoils of superb ancient edifices to increase the treasures of the Loume. The...

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