TO THE EDITOR OF THE "JEWISH MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE."

DEAR SIR,-There are one or two points in the article on "The Safed Mission," in the October number, which I feel bound to correct, especially as I am responsible for one of the mistakes. Firstly, in connection with Hebron, I stated that it was Mrs. Meredith who was starting work there. This arose from the fact that I knew she once had intentions of doing so. As a matter of fact, it is the Mildmay Mission, whose deaconesses are working in Hebron, having transferred their labours from Jaffa. Secondly, Miss Barlee, in speaking of our community in Safed, has quite unintentionally made a mistake which, if uncorrected, might give great offence to some of the friends of our fellowworkers in Christ. Miss Barlee says that the Rev. B. Z. Friedmann with his family, Miss Farthing, a German carpenter and his wife, and our dispenser and his wife, are the only European inhabitants. Now, in the first place, our dispenser is a Syrian, from the Lebanon; and, secondly, by far the larger proportion of the Jews of Safed are Europeans; but these are minor points compared with the unintentional ignoring of our fellow-workers of the Free Church of Scotland Mission, viz., Mr. Christie, his wife and family, and Miss Fenton, a Scotch lady, who teaches in the Girls' School.

One should not also forget to mention the English ViceConsul here, who, though an Austrian by birth, and a Roman Catholic, is a good friend to the Mission in our difficulties with the Government.

In conclusion, I trust that the publication of the letters will be a means of exciting interest in this most important field of work, and that any effort our Committee may decide to put forth to more firmly establish our work here, and increase its usefulness, will be heartily backed up by all our friends and subscribers. I am, yours faithfully,

SAFED, October 23. ERNEST W. GURNEY MASTERMAN. [The article referred to has been re-printed in leaflet form, with the necessary alterations.-En.]

DEAR SIR,-The Jewish legend on the Apostle Peter as the author of Jewish liturgical prayers is well-known to modern Jewish scholars. Samuel David Luzzatto makes mention of it in "Qobez Maase Jede Geonim" (1856) p. 107. Also Zunz in his "Literaturgeschichte der Synagogalen Poesie" (1865) p. 5. The statement of the Machzor Vitry is based on the old Jewish fable of Peter, who is said to have returned at the end of his life to the Jewish faith. It was to scoff at the veneration of St. Peter by the Romish Church, when the Jews related that the Apostle himself, on the very spot of his idolatrous veneration at Rome, had been busy in the interest of the synagogue's worship. This tale, however, scarcely existed before the ninth century. It is now found in the different recensions of the "Toledoth Jeschu," vide Jellinek, Beth-ha-Midrash V. and VI., and Edersheim, "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah " II., p. 788 seq. Leipzig, September 13th.

G. DALMAN.