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NOTES And queries. 



[2nd S. V. 128,, June 12. 't 



This unsized paper is in ihe nature of what Is 

 called " soft paper," upon which eno;ravings are 

 printed ; whilst the sized is called " hard papei*," 

 as are the drawing and writing papers in daily 

 use. I am pleased to find the process I have 

 above adopted for restoring the paper fortified by 

 the opinion of Mr. Henry Stephens, who, in a 

 lecture at the Banking Institute, stated that he 

 had by the action of chlorine discharged all trace 

 of writing ink from an old bill of exchange, and 

 he maintains, that if some pains were taken to re- 

 size the paper, it would be as good as ever, and 

 might be again used to its original purpose. Not- 

 withstanding, however, we have here both evil 

 and antidote, I think that all those who can ap- 

 preciate the genially harmonious tones of an old 

 print, irrespective of ink spots, and who are uti- 

 accustomed to the necessary manipulation, would 

 do well to confine themselves to the method of 

 the eminent print collector, ttecqiiet, who, about 

 a hundred years ago, disclosed to the world his 

 " secret for cleaning prints," which was simply the 

 patient and repeated application of hot water. 



W. J. Stannakd. 

 Hatton Garden. 



AUTHOaiSEDj OB JEWISH VERSIOIfS OF THE 

 SCRIPTURES. 



(2°^ S. ii. 429. 474., and iii. 36. 58.) 



See the learned Charles Butler's tTorce BiMic(e, 

 s. viii. 71 — 82., of the 5th edition, 8vo., London, 

 1817. 



In 1854, a 4to., and in 1856 an 18mo. edition of 

 a traiislation into English of the Holy (JSebrew) 

 Scriptures was published at Philadelphia. The 

 former I have not seen, but of the latter I possess 

 a copy. It contains 1243 pages of minion type, 

 and its title-page is as follows : — 



"The Twenty -four Books of the Holy Scriptures: 

 carefully translated according to the Massoretic Text, 

 after the best Jewish Authorities. By Isaac Leesee 



Philadelphia: Published at 371. Walnut Street 



[A. M.], 5616." 



As I learn, from excellent J^ewish authority, thsit 

 this translation is much esteemed by the English- 

 speaking Jews in the United States, and is getting 

 into very general use among them, under the re- 

 commendations of the Ilabbihs and readers of the 

 principal synagogues, an outline of its contents 

 may not be uninteresting to some of the many 

 readers of " N. & Q." in England. 



The volume is divided into three parts. 



" PakT I. Contains the Five Books of Moses, namely— 

 Genesis, Bereshith. The history of the Crea- 

 tion and Patriarchs. 

 Eiodus, Shemoth. The history of the Israel- 

 ites in Egypt, and their redemption, to the 

 building of the Tabernacle. 

 Leviticus, Vayikra. The ordinances for the 



sacrifices, sanctuary, ptiHfieatlons, festivals, 



&c. 

 JSTumbers^ Bemidbar. The history of the Is- 

 raelites irt the desert. 

 Deuteronomy, Debarim. A recapitulation of 



the history of the Israelites in the desert, 



and of several laws : embracing also some 



new enactments, and an account of the last 



days of Moses. 

 "PAftt II. Division 1. Contains the earlier prophets, 



namely — 

 Joshua. The events of Joshua's life after the 



death of Moses. 

 Judges. The history of Israel, from the death 



of Joshua to the birth oT Samuel. 

 Ist Samuel. The history of Israel, from the 



birth of Samuel to the death of [Samuel 



and] Saul. 

 2nd Samuel. The history of David's reign 



over Israel. 

 1st Kings. The history of Israel, from the 



death of David to that of Jehoshaphat. 

 2nd Kings. The continuation of the history 



of Israel to the destruction of the Temple. 

 ''PArt II. Division 2. Contains the later prophets, 



namely — 

 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, 



Obadiah, Jonah, Michah, Nahum, Habak- 



kuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Mala- 



chi [the last twelve are called the minor 



prophets']. 

 " TAih! IIL 'i'he Holy writings, or Hagiographa, 



namely — 

 Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, 



Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, 



Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ist Chronicles, 



2nd Chronicles. 



It will be observed frond the abrtve, that the 

 order in which the translator has placed the 

 several books differs much from that in which they 

 are to be found in our authorised English version, 

 and also, if I mistake not, in the Latin Vulgate. 

 The reverend translator has been for many years 

 " Reader of the Portuguese Congregation " in 

 Philadelphia, and is very generaiffy esteemed, by 

 both Jews and Christians in the United States, 

 not only as a learned and laborious Hebrew 

 scholar, but as a truly good man. 



I cannot resist taking the opportunity of asking 

 a query in relation to the subject. Why, in Mr. 

 Leeser's translation, as well as in our own, is the 

 second book of Samuel (an historical one) called 

 by that name, seeing that the death of Samuel is 

 recorded in the first verse of chapter twenty-five 

 of the preceding book, and that the second book 

 has nothing whatever to do with Samuel, or the 

 events which happened during his life, but is con- 

 fined to the subsequent history of David's reign ? 

 In the Latin Vulgate, the 1st and 2nd Samuel, and 

 1st and 2nd Kings, are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 

 Books of Kings ; but the first two are respectively 

 headed — Liber primus (and secundus} Samuelis, 

 quem nos primum Regum dicimus, while the last 

 two are respectively styled — Liber Regum tertius 

 (and quartus), secundum Hebroeos primus (and se- 

 cundus) Melachim. It would appear, from what 



