[21]. The Academy, 1875, no. 184, p. 496. The promoters of the Theological Translation Fund, by whom Kuenen’s Religion of Israel was published, Dr. J. Muir of Edinburgh, who wrote some letters to the Scotsman on the Dutch Theology, and to a certain extent Bishop Colenso, besides many others who have not avowed their views so publicly, indicate the progress of opinion in England.—Tr.
[22]. See Literar. Centralblatt, 1875, no. 49, p. 157.
[23]. Biblische Mythologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 2 vols., Stuttgart 1842; Etymologisch-symbolisch-mythologisches Realwörterbuch für Bibelforscher, Archäologen und bildende Künstler, 4 vols., Stuttgart 1843–5.
[24]. I have not succeeded in obtaining a sight of Schwenk’s Mythologie der Semiten, published in 1849; but Bunsen’s condemnation of it in Egypt’s Place in Universal History, IV. p. 363, made me less anxious to get it.
[25]. Naturgeschichte der Sage. Rückführung aller religiösen Ideen, Sagen, Systeme auf ihren gemeinsamen Stammbaum und ihre letzte Wurzel, 2 vols., Munich 1864–5.
[26]. In Vol. II. of his Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft, translated and appended to this volume.
[27]. Der Semitismus, in Zeitsch. für Völkerpsychologie etc., 1875, VIII. 339–340.
[28]. It would be unfair not to mention the Dutch Professor Tiele as a worker on this field. In his Vergelijkende Geschiedenis der oude godsdiensten, Vol. I.: De egyptische en mesopotamische godsdiensten (Amsterdam 1872) he has occasionally inserted explanations of Hebrew myths, to which I have referred at the proper places.
[29]. II. 421 et seq.; see his Rivista Europea, year VI. II. 587. Cf. his review of the German edition of this work in the Bollettino italiano degli studj orientali, 1876, I. 169–172.
[30]. In reference to this I may refer to the eloquent expressions of Steinthal in his lecture Mythos und Religion, p. 28 (in Virchow and Holtzendorff’s Sammlung gemeinverständlicher Vorträge, Bd. V. Heft 97).