Franz Delitsch : a Memorial Tribute. By Samuel Ives Curtiss.
(T. and T. Clark.)—This is a highly interesting little monograph on the personality of the great theologian, and on his work. This last was many-sided. He was more than a theologian. He had very broad interests in literature, and he had tastes other than literary. One of his latest works bore the title of " Iris : Studies in Colour and Talks about Flowers." In 1888 he made a journey to Hanover for the express purpose of studying the yellow hyacinth. Altogether, he was a singularly interesting and love- able character. Not the least attractive feature in it was the intense feeling that he had for the Jewish people. He was not himself, as has sometimes been supposed, of Jewish origin. On the contrary, he came of a pure German stock. Curiously enough, he had a Jew for one of his godfathers. To this man, Hirsch by name, he was under obligations which he gratefully acknowledged.
by showing a life-long interest in his people. To no work of his life did he devote a more untiring industry than to the transla- tion of the New Testament into Hebrew. A proof of the final
revision of this was the last that he saw. This was only a few days before his death. One of the most marked characteristics of Delitsch was his open mind. Towards the end of his life, he modified materially his views on the authorship of the Pentateuch, and on the question of the two Isaiahs.
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