The chief authorities to which the reader is referred are: _Midrash Rabba_, Genesis Section 68; Leviticus Section 29; and Numbers Sections 3 and 22. Further, _Midrash Tanchuma_, to the sections _Ki tissa, Mattoth_, and _Vayishlach; Midrash Samuel_, ch. v; Babylonian Talmud, _Moed Katon_, 18b, and _Sotah_, 2a. In Dr. W. Bacher's _Agada der Tannaiten_, ii, pp. 168-170, will be found important notes on some of these passages. I have freely translated the story of Solomon's daughter from Buber's _Tanchuma_, Introduction, p. 136. It is clearly pieced together from several stories, too familiar to call for the citation of parallels. With one of the incidents may be compared the device of Sindbad in his second voyage. He binds himself to one of the feet of a rukh, _i.e._ condor, or bearded vulture. In another adventure he attaches himself to the carcass of a slaughtered animal, and is borne aloft by a vulture. A similar incident may be noted in Pseudo-Ben Sira (Steinschneider, p. 5). Compare also Gubernatis, Zool. Myth, ii, 94. The fabulous anka was banished as punishment for carrying off a bride. For the prayers based on belief in the Divine appointment of marriages, see "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages," ch. x. One of the many sixteenth century Tobit dramas is _Tobie, Comedie De Catherin Le Doux: En laquelle on void comme les marriages sont faicts au ciel, & qu'il n'y a rien qui eschappe la providence de Dieu_ (Cassel, 1604). HEBREW LOVE SONGS From personal observation, Dr. G.H. Dalman collected a large number of modern Syrian songs in his _Palaestinischer Diwan_ (Leipzig, 1901). The songs were taken down, and the melodies noted, in widely separated districts. Judea, the Hauran, Lebanon, are all represented. Dr. Dalman prints the Arabic text in "Latin" transliteration, and appends German renderings. Wetzstein's earlier record of similar folk-songs appears in Delitzsch's Commentary on Canticles--_Hohelied und Koheleth_,--1875 and also in the _Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, v, p. 287. Previous commentators had sometimes held that the Song of Songs was a mere collection of detached and independent fragments, but on the basis of Wetzstein's discoveries, Professor Budde elaborated his theory, that the Song is a Syrian wedding-minstrel's repertory.