The History of Israel. By Heinrich Ewald. Vol. VIII. "The
Post- Apostolic Age." Translated from the German byJ. Frederick Smith. (Lougmans.)—This is the concluding volume of Ewald's great work, rightly described by the translator as an " Encyclopmdia of Biblical Learning." It includes the period beginning with the second destruc- tion of Jerusalem, and ending with the fall of Blithers in the war against Bar Kokheba, a space of about sixty-five years. Ewald writes ,—"Just as this is the real end of this history, it is also its necessary and eternal end ; and all these still current notions that the nation which then perished will over rise again and continue its exist- ence are in the highest degree mistaken, as are all efforts based upon such opinions." It may be so ; but the twenty years which have passed since then and witnessed a great growth of Jewish influence, hardly make the opinion more probable. By way of appendix we have a chapter on "The History of the Collection of the Sacred Scriptures." Finally, an index has been added which serves for the whole work.
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