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Cheap Jewish Library,
dedicated to the Working Classes, Nos. 1-9.
Under the above unpretending title there have appeared lately in
England short moral stories, based upon Jewish life and manners, at the
extreme low price of one penny or two pence per number. The object of
the authors is to supply the labouring classes of our people with such
reading, conveyed in the form of domestic stories, as must impress
itself deeply on the mind, and produce ultimately wholesome results.
Without being strictly doctrinal in their tendency, all the above
stories contain some illustration of Jewish ideas and habits, love of
God and brotherly affection are the legitimate result of a firm
adherence to the Jewish religion, and that no one need fly to any other
system for those consolations in afflictions and support in joys to
which the human heart so gladly clings. It is probably that we may
transfer one of these tales to our pages; in the meantime we would be
glad could means be devised to have the whole published here for general
circulation, as we doubt not that the effect would be precisely what the
benevolent authors of these tracts, who are unknown to us, intend.
Three Letters, humbly addressed to
the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, on the inexpediency and futility of
any attempt to convert the Jews to the Christian Faith, in the way and
manner hitherto practised. Being a General Discussion of the whole
Jewish Question, by the Rev. John Oxlee, Rector of Molesworth, Hunts.
London, pp. 95.
We received the above pamphlet from Mr. J. R. Paynado, of Hackney,
England, (to whom we return our thanks for his kindness) too late for an
extended review for our present number. We at first thought of
republishing the work entire; but upon reflection we have thought it
best to give a liberal synopsis thereof at the earliest possible
opportunity. It is certainly a curious production, and deserves more
than a passing notice, not alone on account of the learning displayed by
the reverend author, as for the bold stand he takes against the system
which has been so much patronized in England, of bringing the Jews to
Christianity by an appeal to them to forsake the Mosaic Law.
The Sacred Scriptures in
Hebrew and English; a New Translation, with Notes Critical and
Explanatory, by the Rev. D. A. De Sola, J. L. Lindenthal, and Rev. Dr.
Morris J. Raphall. London, by Samuel Bagster & Sons; Parts 1 &
2; pages about 450.
We truly regret that we received the above work too late for review
in this number. We can merely state that it has proceeded to the end of
the 36th chapter of Genesis, and that it promises to be a very
voluminous undertaking. The agent for the work in this country is the
Rev. S. M. Isaacs of New York, and it is sold at two dollars each part.
The typography and paper are really beautiful.
We likewise have received a pamphlet called:
Prophecy Interpreted,
Literally or Spiritually, or the Millenists and Millenarian Views of
Scripture Interpretation; Baltimore, pages 74.
The subject is evidently one in which our readers have no immediate
interest; we must therefore be excused for not giving an extensive
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