“It is a little more melodramatic than [‘The Virginian’] and does not carry with it quite the same conviction, but it is capital reading.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 140w.
Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E. Jordan valley and Petra. **$6. Putnam.
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 670w.
“The volumes are a most important addition to the geography of the east Jordan and Petra regions of Palestine.” H. L. W.
+ + Bib. World. 28: 287. O. ’06. 500w.
“Conveys much valuable information for all, from the Bible student to the mere sportsman, with genial humor sprinkled thruout the pages.”
+ Ind. 60: 1160. My. 17, ’06. 540w. + – Spec. 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 370w.
Liber, Maurice. [Rashi]; tr. from the French by Adele Szold. $1. Jewish pub.
Although a fitting testimony to the interest expressed in the recent eight hundredth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Rashi, this work is not a product of circumstances. It is designed to take its place as the second volume in the “Biographies of Jewish worthies” series of which “Maimonides” was the first. “Jewish history may include minds more brilliant and works more original than Rashi’s. But it is incontestable that he is one of those historical personages who afford a double interest; his own personality is striking and at the same time he is the representative of a civilization and of a period.... Rashi forms, so to say, an organic part of Jewish history.”