[Footnote 5: The word _Critic_ is derived from the Hebrew word [Hebrew: krty] _executioner_; collectively, _executioners and runners_, from the root [Hebrew: krt], _to cut_. Thus it gradually came to mean, to cut and run. It is somewhat remarkable that the secondary meaning of the noun is _Philistine_. See Gesenius in voc.; who also adds, "the conjecture is not improbable that the Philistines sprang from Crete, and that _Caphtor_ signifies [Greek: Krêtê]. Comp. Michælis Spicil. J. 1. p. 292-308. Supplemm. p. 1328." The proverbial character of the Cretans is well known. The Rabbi Ben Hillel, who was of the tribe of Onagrites, defended the oral traditions of the Jews against certain persons, who were disposed to sniff somewhat. In his writings, the venerable Rabbi was accustomed to designate them as Philistines--_mais nous avons change tout cela_--and, in a felicitous allusion to the ancient narrative, insinuated that the extraordinary discomfiture of so many Philistines by a certain jaw-bone was explained upon the well known principle in Hom[oe]opathy, whereby any nuisance is abated by the application of homogeneous substances. This was in the infancy of that science. But the learned Rabbi in his strictures did not anticipate the retort of his opponent Judas Haggadosh, who called Ben Hillel "_the would-be jaw-bone._"] THE END.