Sec. 1. Object of making books.--Sec. 2. Books not always of paper.--Sec. 3. Universal craving for an immortal name.--Sec. 4. Insufficiency of records on various writing materials. Universal longing for knowledge of the remotest past.--Sec. 5. Monumental records.--Sec. 6. Ruins of palaces and temples, tombs and caves--the Book of the Past.--Secs. 7-8. Discovery by Layard of the Royal Library at Nineveh.--Sec. 9. George Smith's work at the British Museum.--Sec. 10. His expeditions to Nineveh, his success and death.--Sec. 11. Value of the Library.--Secs. 12-13. Contents of the Library.--Sec. 14. The Tablets.--Sec. 15. The cylinders and foundation-tablets. CHALDEA. I. NOMADS AND SETTLERS.--THE FOUR STAGES OF CULTURE. 116-126 Sec. 1. Nomads.--Sec. 2. First migrations.--Sec. 3. Pastoral life--the second stage.--Sec. 4. Agricultural life; beginnings of the State.--Sec. 5. City-building; royalty.--Sec. 6. Successive migrations and their causes.--Sec. 7. Formation of nations. II. THE GREAT RACES.--CHAPTER X. OF GENESIS 127-142 Sec. 1. Shinar.--Sec. 2. Berosus.--Sec. 3. Who were the settlers in Shinar?--Sec. 4. The Flood probably not universal.--Secs. 5-6. The blessed race and the accursed, according to Genesis.--Sec. 7. Genealogical form of Chap. X. of Genesis.--Sec. 8. Eponyms.--Sec. 9. Omission of some white races from Chap. X.--Sec. 10. Omission of the Black Race.--Sec. 11. Omission of the Yellow Race. Characteristics of the Turanians.--Sec. 12. The Chinese.--Sec. 13. Who were the Turanians? What became of the Cainites?--Sec. 14. Possible identity of both.--Sec. 15. The settlers in Shinar--Turanians. III. TURANIAN CHALDEA--SHUMIR AND ACCAD.--THE BEGINNINGS OF RELIGION 146-181