We very much regret to record the death of Mr.
Emanuel Deutsch, a young German, whose very able and eloquent essay on the Talmud in the Quarterly Review about six years ago attracted much attention and excited universal admira- tion. Mr. Deutsch was a distinguished member of a distin- guished body,—the Staff of the British Museum,—and even among the learned men who constitute that body he was looked up to as one of the most accomplished. He left England a few months ago, hoping to recover his health in travel, —as usual, he had overworked,—but he never really ral- lied from the state of depression in which he set off on his journey, and he died at Alexandria of dysentery on Tuesday last. He was much more than a linguist and a con- siderable decypherer of inscriptions, for he had the real insight of sympathy into the genius of literature. It is a loss to Eng- land that he has not lived to write his projected work upon the Talmud.
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