We look forward with the highest expectations to the completion of M. Renan's work, and though English readers will differ from many of the author's views, and feel offended now and then at his blunt and unguarded language, we doubt not that they will find his volumes both instructive and suggestive. They are written in that clear and brilliant style which has secured to M. Renan the rank of one of the best writers of French, and which throws its charm even over the dry and abstruse inquiries into the grammatical forms and radical elements of the Semitic languages.
April, 1860.
FOOTNOTES:
[100] 'Histoire Générale et Système Comparé des Langues Sémitiques.' Par Ernest Renan, Membre de l'Institut. Seconde édition, Paris, 1858.
'Nouvelles Considérations sur le Caractère Général des Peuples Sémitiques, et en particulier sur leur Tendance au Monothéisme,' Par Ernest Renan. Paris, 1859.
[101] We give the extracts according to M. Renan's translation of the Book of Job (Paris, 1859, Michel Lévy).
[102] Xenophanes, about contemporary with Cyrus, as quoted by Clemens Alex., Strom. v, p. 601,—εἲϛ θεὀς ἒν τε θεοῖσι καἰ ἀνθρὡποισι μἑγιστος, οὔτε δἑμας θνητοῖσιν ὁμοἳἱος οὐδἐ νοἡμα
[103] 'History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature,' by M. M., p. 567.
[104] 'History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature,' by M. M., p. 536.