Literature.

University chairs of general religious history were established in Holland in 1876 and in France in 1880, and their example has been followed to some extent in this country and in Japan. The endowment of Henry Wilde has now given Oxford University a lectureship in natural and comparative religion and the choice of the first Wilde lecturer has happily fallen on a scholar whose distinguished services to the history of Greek religion are recognized everywhere. Lewis R. Farnell in the book "Greece and Babylon: A Comparative Sketch of Mesopotamian, Anatolian, and Hellenic Religions," has chosen as the theme of his first course the religious influence of the East on the West, in the East he includes Babylonia, Assyria and Asia Minor.