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generations. His historical Introduction
would hardly pass muster WIN ou'
, school committees on history. lie pear'
moro severely upon the war OF ioi--
than upon that OF 1876. He says tht
former was "a wanton war ana exuIts
over tho results In Canada or the lat-
ter he says: 1.-THE time camo when VT
gina was compelled to take the heio
Her soil became the cockpit OF the
contending armies and was ravaged from
end to end and her slaves forciDiy freed'
But her sons covered themselves win
glory, and II one may say so, OUT OF
host where all were valiant. VIII De for-
ever remembered as the braVest OF the
brave"
These sketches are republications from
Blackwood, Macmillans. the Badninton.
etc. bat Mr.. Bradley is known In England
for another production OF his PEN the
Life Of General Wolfe" which he was
designated to prepare as one OF the
series OF English men OF Action, ana
he IS said to have executed that task
with marked success. If we remember
Alright, Thackeray, I'm his 'Virginians,
makes General Wolfe take one or his
young Virginians with him TO quebec
and here we have the English biographer
OF Wolfe giving us touch OK Braaeock
and his soldiers in Virginia.
Our Scotch Presbyterian fellow-citizens
will hardly object TO the account which
Mr.. Bradley has given Of their f0rDears'
THE TALMUD. By Arsene Darmeste-
ter. Translated from the French by
Henrietta Sold. Philadelphia: The
Jewish Publication Society OF America.
Pages, 81.
This is No. OF a most interesting
instructive, and scholarly series OF short
treatses on the Tamud. An introduce
/ tory note says: "1f we consider that
| It dhe Talmud) is the faithful mirror
of the manners, the institutions ting
| knowledge of the Jews-in q word OF
the whole of their civilization in India
and Babylonia during the prolific cen
turtles preceding and following the ad-
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For what is generally known of this
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of all sorts of more or less exact knowl-
lie heaped up with the incoherency OF
complete disorder. But it has not yet
been made plain that II Is the work OF
a nation, the expression Of social sys-
tenn and that. in virtue thereof, it falls
under the laws governing the progress
of humanity"
This note contains an eminently true
description OF the Talmud, and its value
from a literary and historic. to say no.
af..A Of NFfn
does it exaggerate respecting popular
ignorance of this great work. Each one
of the present series so far published,
is calculated to stimulate more wide
spread interest in the Talmud and TO
help dispel the ignorance referred to.
No 4 is broadly divided into two parts
IAN analytic sketch of the Talmud. and
"The formation Of the Talmud, the spirit
of its formation" The translating seems
to have been done with great care and
conscientiousness.
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