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). Footnote 31: _Mythologie der Ebräer in ihrem Zusammenhange mit den Mythologien der Indogermanen und der Ægypter._ Nordhausen 1876. Footnote 32: _Ausland_, 1874, p. 961 _et seq._, 1001 _et seq._ Footnote 33: The above-named work was published immediately after the conclusion of this Introduction. Footnote 34: _Die Erzväter der Menschheit: ein Beitrag zur Grundlegung einer hebräischen Alterthumswissenschaft._ Leipzig, Fues 1875. Footnote 35: Ibn Yaʿîsh’s Commentary on the Mufaṣṣal, p. 74 (of the edition now being published by Dr. Jahn of Berlin). See _Fables_ de Loqman le Sage (éd. Dérenbourg), Introduction, p. 7. Footnote 36: I may refer on this point to Von Grutschmid’s excellent critique on Bunsen’s attempt to explain Athene as Semitic, in the former’s _Beiträge zur Geschichte des alten Orients_, Leipzig 1858, p. 46. Footnote 37: Stade (_Morgenländische Forschungen_, p. 232) justly insists on the good Hebrew character of the names occurring in the Hebrew stories, even against the false supposition of the original Aramaic character of the Hebrew people. Footnote 38: _Zeitsch. d. D.M.G._, 1871, XXV. 139; see Lepsius, _Einleitung zur Chronologie der alten Ægypten_, I. 326. Footnote 39: See Ibn Yaʿîsh’s Commentary on the Mufaṣṣal of Zamachsharî, p. 47, in which the name of the constellation al-ʿAyyûḳ (Auriga, ‘The Hinderer’) is imported into this story, as hindering al-Dabarân from coming up with his beloved. Footnote 40: al-Meydânî, Majmaʿ al-amthâl (ed. of Bûlâḳ), II. 209. Footnote 41: See Nöldeke in Schenkel’s _Bibellexikon_, 2nd ed. IV. 370. Footnote 42: _Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft_, 1869, VI. Footnote 43: Theodor Waitz, _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, II. 85. Footnote 44: W.H.I. Bleek, _Reynard the Fox in South Africa_, 1864, pp. xx-xxvi. See Max Müller’s _Introduction to the Science of Religion_, London 1873, p. 54. Footnote 45: _Histoire générale et Système comparé des Langues sémitiques_, p. 7. Footnote 46: