NOTE 



^ I ^HESE four works, along with a series of important articles 

 1 in the last ten volumes of the Ninth Edition of the 

 lHCClOpa&ia BtitanntCa, may be said to represent nearly 

 the whole of the literary activity of their gifted Author during 

 the twelve years when his remarkable intellectual powers were 

 at their greatest maturity and his scholarship at its ripest and 

 richest. 



No serious student of the religious and ecclesiastical history of 

 English-speaking countries during the last twenty-five years can 

 afford to neglect any one of the four; if not all equally &quot; epoch- 

 making,&quot; each of them at least marks a new stage in the discussion 

 of the subject to which it relates. Nor is their interest historical 

 merely ; it cannot be said that modern thought has even yet by 

 any means wholly absorbed or assimilated all in them that is 

 original and destined ultimately to become the common property 

 of those who think and know. Nor is the range of this influence 

 still exerted by them wholly confined to English-speaking 

 countries : two of them have been translated into German under 

 the sponsorship of Professors Kautzsch and Rothstein, both 

 scholars expressing themselves as at one in the desire that their 

 educated fellow-countrymen should have easy access to the works 

 of a writer so lucid and so vivid, so keen and candid, and at the 

 same time so sympathetic. 



The earliest in the series, The Old Testament in the 

 Jewish Church, first published in 1881, had an unusually 

 large circulation, and passed into its second edition, revised and 

 greatly enlarged by the Author, in 1892. 



The Prophets of Israel (1882) appeared in a new edition 

 in 1895 ; this was enriched with an Introduction and Additional 

 Notes by the Author s friend and fellow-worker, Professor Cheyne. 

 Of The Religion of the Semites, published in 1884, the 

 second edition, published in 1894, embodies the Author s 

 latest corrections. The second edition of Kinship (1903), 

 edited by the competent hands of Mr. Stanley Cook, incorporates 

 notes from the Author s interleaved copy, besides being annotated 

 by Prof. Goldziher. The work first appeared in 1885. 



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