Judas Maccabccus and the Jewish War of Independence. By Claude
Reigner Conder, D.C.L. (A. P. Watt and Son.)—This is the second edition of a work originally published more than fifteen years ago. "I find," says Major Condor in his new pre- face, "little to correct, though much might be added." It is interesting to see that he rejects the theory which attributes so many of the Psalms to the Maccabean period. "I very much doubt," he says, 'whether such Hebrew could then have been written." He has no favour for fancies that belong to a very different attitude of mind. " Anglo Israelitism " is to him a popular delusion. It would be interesting to see put together the very various speculations that have been made as to the fate of the Ten Tribes. Some at least of the Anglc-Israelites identify them with the Scythians, whose invasion of Media is mentioned by Herodotus,—no compliment to the Israelites, as the Scythians were barbaris barbari ores.
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