ISRAEL AND THE GENTILES. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. BY DR. ISAAC DA COSTA, OF AMSTERDAM. "A travers tant d'états, d'âges de lieux divers, Koninklijke Bibliotheck te s Mäge. LONDON: DELILLE. JAMES NISBET AND CO., 21, BERNERS STREET. MDCCCL. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. It is, I believe, customary for a translator to say a few words in introducing an author whose work is in this manner ushered before the public in a new garb; and I cannot thus mention Dr. Da Costa, without expressing my wish that the reader of his book may, even in a small degree, participate in the vivid enjoyments which I myself have derived from the gifted writer's own conversation and correspondence. In the author of "Israel and the Gentiles," it is not only the poet and the man of letters with whom we become acquainted, neither is it human wisdom alone that flows with eloquence from his lips. We recognise in him the devoted Christian, the true servant of his elder brother according to the flesh," whom he worships as Messiah, his King, and his God. We behold in him one who has left riches and honour, and counted them as |