Reason and Revelation

244 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY of Knudtzon. In Dr Mercer's work, the specialist now has a collection of all the published texts, while·the less advanced student has for the first time a complete English translation. We are all grateful to the author for a useful work, and we extend to him our hearty congratulations. It is to Dr Mercer's credit that he fullyre.lizes and acknowledges the greatness of Knudtzon's edition, and scholars should be thankful that he keeps Knudtzon's numbering of t he texts. Had Dr Mercer changed the numbering, there would have been no end o( confusion in future literature. As it is, all scholars can advantageously refer to D r Mercer's volumes, which also include the tablets published since Knudtzon's opus. I am personally sorry that my publication of the eight additional fragments, foun d during the 1933-4 campaign of the Egypt Exploration Society under the direction of Mr J. D. S. Pendlebury, has not appeared in ti me to be included in Dr Mercer's volumes. My manuscript has been ready for press for some time but the book of which it is to be a part (City of Akkmaton 111) has been delayed and now that the war has thrown cultural activity out of gear (especiaUy in the belligerent countries), it may be postponed for some time to come. Therefore, in the light of presen t events, it is well that Dr Mercer did not wait for my publication', Since the Amarna tablets are so extensive (368 are in Dr Mercer's edition), it is only natural that I should differ with hi m on many linguistic, philological, archaeological, and historical points. H owever, I refrain (rom giving a tedious list of corrections and criticisms lest it obscure the more important fact that Dr Mercer has made these precious documents accessible to a wide reading public and perhaps has also established "a stepping stone to a future and better editlon" as he modestly phrases it in the preface. REASON AND REVELATION' FRA NK W. BEARE The three lectures which are published in this little book offer a popularizing sketch of t he manner in which the most notable thinkers of the Middle Ages handfed the problem of the relation • Reason and Revelation in O,t Mjddlt AltS, by Etienne Gilson [Direc.tor of the Institute of Medieval Studies) St. Michael's .College, Univer.sity of Toronto}, The Richards Lectures in the University of Virgini a, Scribners, 1938, $1. 50. 244 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUARTERLY of Knudtzon. In Dr Mercer's work, the specialist now has a collection of all the published texts, while·the less advanced student has for the first time a complete English translation. We are all grateful to the author for a useful work, and we extend to him our hearty congratulations. It is to Dr Mercer's credit that he fullyre.lizes and acknowledges the greatness of Knudtzon's edition, and scholars should be thankful that he keeps Knudtzon's numbering of t he texts. Had Dr Mercer changed the numbering, there would have been no end o( confusion in future literature. As it is, all scholars can advantageously refer to D r Mercer's volumes, which also include the tablets published since Knudtzon's opus. I am personally sorry that my publication of the eight additional fragments, foun d during the 1933-4 campaign of the Egypt Exploration Society under the direction of Mr J. D. S. Pendlebury, has not appeared in ti me to be included in Dr Mercer's volumes. My manuscript has been ready for press for some time but the book of which it is to be a part (City of Akkmaton 111) has been delayed and now that the war has thrown cultural activity out of gear (especiaUy in the belligerent countries), it may be postponed for some time to come. Therefore, in the light of presen t events, it is well that Dr Mercer did not wait for my publication', Since the Amarna tablets are so extensive (368 are in Dr Mercer's edition), it is only natural that I should differ with hi...