EXERCISES FOR TRANSLATION INTO THE HEBREW LANGUAGE. BY HERMANN L. STRACK, D. D., Ph. D., Professor extraord. of Theology in Berlin. Translated from the German by ARCHD. R. S. KENNEDY, B. D., Professor of Oriental Languages, Univ. of Aberdeen. Pp. 48. Berlin: H. Reuther's Verlagsbuchhandlung. 1888. These exercises were prepared to accompany the author's excellent Hebrew Grammar in the series: Porta Linguarum Orientalium (2d ed., 1885; English ed., 1886). The material, taken from the Old Testament, is well chosen and well arranged. Almost from the outset, sentences, rather than single forms, are given; a feature which makes a great difference in the interest of the learner. The paragraphs are provided with references not only to the author's own grammar, but to Gesenius-Mitchell, and to Davidson, and are so arranged as to give considerable latitude to teachers' preferences as regards the order in which the topics should be taken up. A glossary (references to Strack's Grammar) completes a very useful supplement to any grammar. The translation of such a work is a matter of unusual difficulty, and it is not surprising that the English edition is not as satisfactory as the original. In class-room use the most serious fault I have to find with it is that it does not distinguish between nominal and verbal sentences a distinction very carefully made in the German, and indispensable for the beginner. "Gehört hat Jahwè die Stimme der Hagar can hardly be mistranslated; "Jahweh heard the voice of Hagar" will as certainly be rendered wrong. Where the English will not tolerate the inversion, an arbitrary sign of some kind might be employed; but in some way the distinction must be made. A number of words are missing in the glossary; and in some others the translation does not preserve distinctions intended by the author. George F. Moore. BOOKS RECEIVED. G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York and London. 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