136 _The Unicorn: a Mythological Investigation_, by Robert Brown, F.S.A. London, 1881, p. 34.

137 _The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World_, by George Rawlinson, M.A. London, 1871, i. 56.

138 _Ibid._, vol. i. p. 123.

139 _Ibid._, vol. i. note to p. 124.

140 Brown's _Unicorn_, p. 34.

141 _Mythology among the Hebrews_, p. 158,

142 _Ibid._, 159.

143 _Ibid._, 160.

144 _Jewish History and Politics_, by Sir Edward Strachey, Bart.

London, 1874, p. 256.

145 _Phoenicia_, by John Kenrick, M.A. London, 1855, p. 301.

146 _Dictionary of the Bible_, edited by William Smith, LL.D. Art.

ASHTORETH.

147 _Dictionary of the Scottish Language_, iii. 299.

148 On _Isaiah_. London, 1824, ii. 374.

149 _The Antiquities of Israel_, by Heinrich Ewald (trans. by Solly).London, 1876, p. 341.

150 _The Bampton Lectures for 1876_, by William Alexander, D.D., D.C.L. London, 1878, p. 378.

151 _Rivers of Life, showing the Evolution of Faiths_, by Major-General J. G. R. Forlong. London, 1883, ii. 62.

152 _Outlines of the History of Religion_, by C. p. Tiele, p. 63.

153 _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, p. 194.

154 _The Philosophy of History_, by Frederick von Schlegel, translated by J. B. Robertson. London, 1846, p. 325.

155 _El-Koran; or, The Koran_, translated from the Arabic by J. M.

Rodwell, M.A. London, 1876, p. 199.

156 Tylor's _Primitive Culture_, ii. 274.

157 _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_. London, 1862, p. 76.

158 _The Zend-Avesta_, translated by James Darmesteter. Oxford, 1883, Part ii., p. 90.

159 _The Philosophy of History_, by G. W. F. Hegel, translated by J. Sibree, M.A. London, 1861, p. 186.

160a _The Highlands of Central India_, by Captain J. Forsyth.

London, 1871, p. 146.

160b _Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of Asia_, by John Bell of Antermony. Glasgow, 1763, i. 230.

161 _The Early Races of Scotland_, by Forbes Leslie. Edinburgh, 1866, i. 138.

162 Kames' _History of Man_, iii. 299.

163 _The Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man_, by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D.

London, 1882, p. 315.

164 _History Of Man_, iii. 366.

165 _The Religions of China_, by James Legge. London, 1880, p.

12.

166 _Ibid._, pp. 44-46.

167 _Religion in China_, by Joseph Edkins, D.D. London, 1878, p.

60.

168 _A Translation of the Confucian Yih King_, by the Rev. Canon McClatchie, M.A. Shanghai, 1876, p. 386.

169 _Ibid._, p. 388.

170 _Ibid._, p. 449.

171 _The Religions of China_, p. 170.

172 _Religion in China_, p. 105.

173 _Handbook for the Student of Chinese Buddhism_, by Rev. E.

J. Eitel, London. 1870, p. 107.

174 _Hulsean Lectures for 1870_, p. 203.

175 _Hibbert Lectures on Indian Buddhism_, by T. W. Rhys Davids. London, 1881, p. 231.

176 _A View of China for Philological Purposes_, by the Rev. R.

Morrison. Macao, 1817, p. 107.

177 Dennys' _Folk-Lore of China_, p. 28.

178 _Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China during the years 1844-46_, by M. Huc. Translated by W. Hazlitt. London, i. 61.

179 _Social Life of the Chinese_, by Rev. Justus Doolittle. New York, 1867, ii. 65.