PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I The Characteristics of Proverbs

CHAPTER II The Proverbs of the Jews

CHAPTER III Forgotten Years

CHAPTER IV The Day of Small Things

CHAPTER V Iron Sharpeneth Iron

CHAPTER VI A Sower went forth to Sow

CHAPTER VII Men and Manners

CHAPTER VIII The Ideal

CHAPTER IX The Exaltation of Wisdom

CHAPTER X The Hill "Difficulty"

CHAPTER XI Harvest

CHAPTER XII Values

CHAPTER XIII Nature in the Proverbs

CHAPTER XIV Humour in the Proverbs

CHAPTER XV From Wisdom's Treasury

CHAPTER XVI The Body Politic

CHAPTER XVII A Chapter of Good Advice

CHAPTER XVIII Conduct

CHAPTER XIX Faith

CHAPTER XX The Gift of God

Index A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF TITLES

INDEX OF AUTHORS

STUDIES IN LIFE
FROM JEWISH PROVERBS

STUDIES IN LIFE

FROM

JEWISH PROVERBS

BY

W. A. L. ELMSLIE, M.A.,

Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge

LONDON

JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13 & 14 FLEET STREET, E.C.

To

MY WIFE

“Forsan et hÆc olim meminisse juvabit”