Being a collection of love lyrics of Ancient Palestine.
By Morris Jastrow, Jr., Ph.D., LL.D.
Professor Jastrow's new work is a companion volume to his GENTLE
CYNIC (The Book of Ecclesiastes) and to his BOOK OF JOB. These three
books of the Bible have been chosen by him for popular presentation,
because of their outstanding character as literary masterpieces, and
because of their human appeal. This new translation is based on a
revised text. The author also gives the origin, growth and
interpretation of the Songs. These twenty-three songs are as fresh
in their appeal to the human heart to-day as they were over two
thousand years ago,--the author has given descriptive and enticing
titles to them, such as "Love's Ecstasy," "The Saucy Damsel," "Love's
Longing," etc., etc. Frontispiece by Alexander Bida. Handsome
octavo. $2.50