Reverend James Baikie (1866-1931) was the author of: Through the Telescope (1906), The Story of the Pharaohs (1908), The Sea-Kings of Crete (1910), Peeps at the Heavens (1911), Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt (1912), At the Royal Navy (1913), Lands and Peoples of the Bible (1914), Wonder Tales of the Ancient World (1915), Some British Painters (1916), Ancient Assyria (1916), Ancient Rome (1917), Ancient Greece (1920), Life of the Ancient East (1923), The Bible Story (1923), A Century of Excavations (1923), Ancient Crete: The Sea-Kings Eyrie (1924), Egyptian Papyri (1925), The Amarna Age (1926), Ancient Palestine (1926), The Charm of the Scott Country (1927), Glamour of Near East Excavation (1927), The English Bible and Its Story (1928), At Men of the Old Stone Age (1928), A History of Egypt (1929), The Ancient East and Its Story (1929), Ancient Jerusalem (1930) and The Romance of the Bible (1930).