The present volume contains a collection of essays, the majority of which
were read as papers before various literary societies, such as the
International Congress of Orientalists, the Biblical Archaeological Society,
and the Jews' College Literary Association. Several of them have already
appeared in various periodicals, such as the Imperial Asiatic Review, the
Jewish Quarterly Review, and the Jewish Chronicle, and are now reproduced, with
some slight modification, by the courtesy of the editors. Translations of some
of the essays have also been published in Hebrew, French, and German
periodicals.
The essays, it may be remarked, deal somewhat extensively with the humour and
satire that is not infrequently to be found in the works both of ancient and
modern Hebrew writers; and, as this subject has hitherto attracted but little
attention, I am not without hope that these pages may be of interest to the
general reader.
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