LONDON
LUZAC & CO., 46 GREAT RUSSELL STREET
(PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
1905
OXFORD : HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
TO MY WIFE
The present volume contains a collection ofessays, the majority of which were read as papersbefore various literary societies, such as the InternationalCongress of Orientalists, the BiblicalArchaeological Society, and the Jews' CollegeLiterary Association. Several of them have alreadyappeared in various periodicals, such as the ImperialAsiatic Review, the Jewish Quarterly Review, andthe Jewish Chronicle, and are now reproduced, withsome slight modification, by the courtesy of theeditors. Translations of some of the essays havealso been published in Hebrew, French, and Germanperiodicals.
The essays, it may be remarked, deal somewhatextensively with the humour and satire that is notinfrequently to be found in the works both ofancient and modern Hebrew writers; and, as thissubject has hitherto attracted but little attention,I am not without hope that these pages may be ofinterest to the general reader.
J. C.
London, June, 1905.