XX1V MEMOIR before him, and this on lines once more modified to present circumstances. The call to the work, as he liked to remember, came from without. Through the introduction of Mr. Reeve, Editor of the Edinburgh Review and late Secretary to the Privy Council, Dr. Edersheim had become acquainted with Mr. T. Norton Longman, and it was at the request of this gentleman that the ‘Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah’ was set in hand. In the same year Dr. Edersheim received the degree of D.D. from the University of Giessen, and removed to Loders, a country parish in Dorsetshire, presented to him by the late Lord Chancellor Cairns. It was during the seven following years of rural retirement and health- ful life that his book was written. At the same time the ‘Bible History’ (Old Test. Series, now complete in seven vols.), which he had previously commenced, was continued, and many other literary engagements were fulfilled; as, for example, his article on ‘ Josephus’ for Smith and Wace’s ‘Dictionary of Christian Biography,’ contributions to the ‘Bible Educator,’ the Edinburgh Review, and many other minor writ- ings. In the charge of his poor parishioners, and in