MEMOIR XXX1 The Tohu, begun about the year 1872, and bearing a characteristic dedication to his wife, may, indeed, be described as in great measure a diary—unfortunately too spasmodically kept—recording the inward impres- sions prominent at the moment, and which in turn were the product not only of outward circumstances, but of his own mental and spiritual development. In it also may be found the gist of his thinking on cer- tain difficult subjects, here tersely noted down, and often to be found more fully developed in the writings which had first raised the train of thought (comp. e.g. Tohu, pp. 74 and 75, and ‘ The Life and Times,’ vol. i1., pp. 471-8). Its last entry, made March 16, 1889, will be found unfinished. This, perhaps, is the only known instance of an uncompleted sentence from his pen: a type of the day on which it was written, and which was destined to be left unfinished here, and of that life so suddenly and abruptly cut short. With a mind and habit of thinking essentially scholarly, and with a sensitiveness of disposition which made him keenly alive to much that might pass unnoticed by many of robuster sort, Dr. Edersheim retained a vast fund of humour (often resulting in a most comical mimicry), and an intense