MEMOIR XXV1l Commentary, a monument of careful and scholarly labour, occupied the greater part of two years, and was a severe strain on his energies. The extent of the work involved was far larger than he had foreseen, and was more specially trying in that he was, at this time, busy collecting materials for, and anxious to get to the writing of, a second large book, a companion to his ‘Life and Times.’ This was to have been the ‘Life and Writings of St. Paul,’ and was definitely undertaken in 1887, at the request once more of Mr. Norton Longman, with whom, since his first introduc- tion in 1876, Dr. Edersheim had been on terms of the warmest friendship... Opportunity for beginning this fresh work was lacking until 1888, when its first chapters were written with the keenest delight and the most eager anticipation. That delicacy of health, however, to which he was subject, and against which for so many years he had successfully striven, once more over- mastered him. A slight cold, which immediately settled on the chest, gave the preliminary warning of what was to follow. By the advice of his friend and medical adviser, Dr. Nankivell (of Bournemouth), it was decided once again to try the effects of a winter