12 OCTOBER 1918, Page 21

A Book of Jewish Thoughts. Selected and Arrangod by the

Chief Rabbi. (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—Dr. Hertz, the Chief Rabbi, compiled an admirable little anthology for the Jewish sailors and soldiers, and has now revised and enlarged it for a seventh edition. It is arranged in five sections, "The Jewish Warrior," "The People of the Book,"" The Testimony of the Nations," "The Voice of Prayer," and "The Voice of Wisdom." The compiler has drawn mainly upon the Bible, the Talmud, and later Jewish literature, but he also quotes some non-Jewish tributes to the Hebrew race and religion, including the British protest when Russia in 1912 revived the ancient charge of "black magic" against the Jews, and Mr. Balfour's letters promising the Jews a "national home " in Palestine.