Neander, The Jewish Historian

The new life of John Cairns, thecelebrated Scotch divine, contains a pen sketch, of Neander, the great Jewish ecclesiastical historian. Cairns attended his lectures at the University of Berlin in 1843 and describes him as a little man with a face that was pale, sallow and expressionless, a low forehead, and nothing striking in his features but his black eyebrows. He was dressed in a dirty brown coat, blue plush tronsers and dirty top boots. As the distinguished man stood and lectured to his stnients he punctured every sentence by spitting, so that the floor had to be cleaned when he had finished. And this was the old man who, "for knowledge, spirituality, good sense and indomitable spirit of the finest discretion on moral snbjects, was a marvel. ' '