The Original Hebrew of a Portion of Ecclesiasticus (xxxiz. 15 —
Az. 11). Edited by A. E. Cowley, M.A., and A. D. Neubauer, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—This is a full presentation of the facts of a most important discovery. Conclusions are to be drawn here- after. That the finding of a considerable fragment of undoubted date (the early part of the second century B.C.) must tell greatly on the criticism of the Old Testament needs no proving. " The Hebrew of the present fragment is (with the exceptions referred to below) classical, not rabbinical."
Of the publications of the English Dialect Society we have to mention :—A Warwickshire Word-Book. By G. F. Northall A Bibliographical List of Words Illustrative of the Dialect of Northumberland. Compiled by R. Oliver Heslop.—Two Col- lections of Derbicisms. By Samuel Pegge, A.M. Edited, with two Introductions, by Rev. Professor Skeet, Litt.D., and Thomas Hallam.—Lakeland and Iceland, By the Rev. T. Ellwood, M.A. —"A glossary of words in the Dialect of Cumberland, Westmore- land, and North Lancashire, which seem to be allied to or identical with the Icelandic or Norse."
Two books produced to meet an immediate demand are,—The Life of Fridtjof Nansen, by J. Arthur Bain (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.), and Dr. Nansen : the Man and his Work, by Frederick Dolman (S.P.C.K.)—A similar cause has led to the publication of An Ancient People, a Short Sketch of Armenian History (J. Nisbet).
Previous page
