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EARLY HEBREW LIFE. 
A STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY, 
By JOHN FENTON. 
This work ts an application of Sociology to those portions of the Pentateuch which deal with 
social life. The labours of Sir H. Maine, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and others, have so far determined 
the characteristics of the diferent stages of the development of human society as to render the general 
_ principles of sociology available for unfolding the social history which is enfolded in traditions of laws 
and customs. In the case of the Pentateuch nothing of this kind has yet been attempted. No endea- 
vour has, hitherto, been made to reconstruct the history of Early Hebrew Society by the light afforded 
by research into the early history of man; and, therefore, since literary critecism has destroyed the 
traditional estimate of the age of the Pentateuch, it has not seldom been assumed by Hebratsts that 
there ts no real history attainable prior to the prophetic records, commencing about B.C. 800. It is, on 
the contrary, the object of this work to show, by comparison with the results of sociological research, that 
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progress of the Hebrews from nomadism upwards. By grouping these customs, therefore, in their 
Sociological order, an outline of Hebrew social life is obtained from the earliest period down to the 
| commencement of the prophetic records. Consequently, instead of relying solely upon the prophets for 
the earlier Hebrew history, their testimony can be controlled by a valuable, independent body of 
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THE CLASSICAL POETRY OF THE JAPANESE. 
By BASIL HALL CHAMBERLAIN, 
Author of “‘ Yeigo Henkaku Ichiran.” 
In the preparation of this volume the translator has been assisted by the aid and counsel of a 
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BUDDHIST BIRTH STORIES; 
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Translated by T. W. RHYS DAVIDS. 
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THE GULISTAN; 
Or, Rose Garden of Shekh Mushlin’d-din Sadi of Shiraz. 
Translated for the first time into Prose and Verse, 
With an INTRODUCTORY PREFACE, and a LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, 
: From the Atish Kadah, 
By EDWARD B. EASTWICK, F.R.S., M.R.A.S., &c. 
_ The Gulistan of Sadi has attained a popularity in the East which, perhaps, has never been 
reached by any European work in this Western world. The schoolboy lisps out his first lessons in it ; 
| the man of learning quotes it ; and a vast number of its expressions have become proverbial. When 
| we consider, indeed, the time at which it was written—the first half of the thirteenth century—a time 
( when gross darkness brooded over Europe, at least—darkness which might have been, but alas! was 
| not felt—the justness of many of its sentiments. and the glorious views of the Divine attributes con- 
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