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object, and has come back to prepare for the 

 press a great work on Phoenician antiquities, and 

 to put into shape the numerous new ideas which 

 he had gained in the East. 



" A month or two after his return, the Imperial 

 Government appointed him to the chair of Hebrew. 

 His fitness for the post is beyond dispute. He is 

 incomparably the first Shemitic scholar in France, 

 and is one of the very few Frenchmen whom the 

 proudest of German literati allow to be on a level 

 with themselves in learning, while they speak with 

 the highest admiration of his immeasurably greater 

 skill in clothing his ideas in simple and eloquent 

 language. On this point we may speak with some 

 certainty, because it is only a few weeks since we 

 had the pleasure of conveying to Monsieur Renan 

 the cordial congratulations of the greatest German 

 scholar whose line of study has coincided with 

 his labours. Some symptoms of disapprobation 

 having reached the ears of Government, when 

 Monsieur Kenan's appointment was first talked of, 

 it was proposed that the title of the chair to which 

 he was nominated should be the 'Professorship of the 

 Shemitic Languages as compared with each other,' 

 and not the old title of ' Professorship of Hebrew.' 



" It was understood," adds a writer in the 

 Literary Gazette of the same date, " when the 



