"Mr. Hershon has ... thus given English readers what is, we believe, a fair set of specimens which they can test for themselves."--_The Record._ "This book is by far the best fitted in the present state of knowledge to enable the general reader to gain a fair and unbiased conception of the multifarious contents of the wonderful miscellany which can only be truly understood--so Jewish pride asserts--by the life-long devotion of scholars of the Chosen People."--_Inquirer._ "The value and importance of this volume consist in the fact that scarcely a single extract is given in its pages but throws some light, direct or refracted, upon those Scriptures which are the common heritage of Jew and Christian alike."--_John Bull._ "It is a capital specimen of Hebrew scholarship; a monument of learned, loving, light-giving labour."--_Jewish Herald._ * * * * * Post 8vo, pp. xii.-228, cloth, price 7s. 6d. THE CLASSICAL POETRY OF THE JAPANESE. BY BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN, Author of "Yeigo Heñkaku Shirañ." "A very curious volume. The author has manifestly devoted much labour to the task of studying the poetical literature of the Japanese, and rendering characteristic specimens into English verse."--_Daily News._ "Mr. Chamberlain's volume is, so far as we are aware, the first attempt which has been made to interpret the literature of the Japanese to the Western world. It is to the classical poetry of Old Japan that we must turn for indigenous Japanese thought, and in the volume before us we have a selection from that poetry rendered into graceful English verse."--_Tablet._ "It is undoubtedly one of the best translations of lyric literature which has appeared during the close of the last year."--_Celestial Empire._ "Mr. Chamberlain set himself a difficult task when he undertook to reproduce Japanese poetry in an English form. But he has evidently laboured _con amore_, and his efforts are successful to a degree."--_London and China Express._ * * * * * Post 8vo, pp. xii.-164, cloth, price 10s. 6d. THE HISTORY OF ESARHADDON (Son of Sennacherib), KING OF ASSYRIA, B.C. 681-668. Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets in the British Museum Collection; together with a Grammatical Analysis of each Word, Explanations of the Ideographs by Extracts from the Bi-Lingual Syllabaries, and List of Eponyms, &c. BY ERNEST A. BUDGE, B.A., M.R.A.S., Assyrian Exhibitioner, Christ's College, Cambridge. "Students of scriptural archæology will also appreciate the 'History of Esarhaddon.'"--_Times._