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ARCHIBALD HENRY, an English Orientalist; born near Bristol, England, Sept. 25, 1846. His works extend over various fields and are of great importance for comparative philology and history. They include: "Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes" (1872); "Lectures on the Assyrian Language" (1877); "Babylonian Literature" (1877); "Ancient Empires of the East" (1884); "Assyria" (1885); "The Hittites" (1889); "Records of the Past" (new series, 1889-1892); "Life and Times of Isaiah" (1889); "The Races of the Old Testament" (1891); "Social Life among the Assyrians and Babylonians" (1891); "The Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments" (1894); "The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus" (1895); "Patriarchal Palestine" (1895); "Early History of the Hebrews" (1897); "Israel and the Surrounding Nations" (1898); "Babylonians and Assyrians" (1900); etc. Special mention should be made of his "Principles of Comparative Philology" and "Introduction to the Science of Language," which have passed through many editions.