PREFACE. THE following work had only the advantage of the author's corrections as far as page 80, when, shortly after the New Year, he was carried off by a sad and sudden illness. From that point onwards the sheets have been revised by a friend, with the exception of the Arabic words and quotations. These latter have all passed under the kind and careful supervision of the well-known Semitic scholar, the Rev. W. H. Lowe, of Christ's College, Cambridge. Easter, 1881. W. H. |