The " question Renal]." has at last been settled by the
dismissal of M. Renan from the Professorship of the Hebrew, Syriac, and Chaldee, and the appointment of M. Munk, a Jew, in his place, an appointment intended to show that Renan's dismissal is not an act of subserviency to the priests. It appears that on his original appointment he was warned by the then Minister of Public Instruction that he should be "a stranger to religious polemics," and "devote himself to explorations necessary for the understand- ing and advancement of the Semitic languages," amongst which the "Vie de Jesus" is certainly not to be included. M. Renan had previously declined the post of Sub-Librarian in the manuscript department of the Imperial Library, so that now he is without office. His "Vie de Jesus," however, must at least have made him rich.
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