A Series of Works from the Sacred Scriptures Presented in Modern Literary Form

SELECT MASTERPIECES OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE

Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by

RICHARD G. MOULTON, M.A. (CAMB.), Ph.D. (PENN.)

Professor of Literature in English in the University of Chicago

New York The MacMillan Company London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd.1902

Copyright, 1897, By THe MacMillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped September, 1897. Reprinted December, 1897; August, 1898; February, 1899; August, 1900; July, 1901; April, 1902.

Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

Transcriber's note.

Text enclosed by underscores was italicized in the original book (italics), and text enclosed by forward slashes was in bold face (/bold face/).

A minor printing error was corrected (Genesis 44 29).