PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.Because the First Edition of this volume was published so recently as 1923 it has not required such full revision or so many changes as did my four volumes on the Book of Isaiah and of the Twelve Prophets which first appeared so far back as 1888-1898.

LECTURE I
The Man and the BookIn this and the following lectures I attempt an account and estimate of the Prophet Jeremiah, of his life and teaching, ad of the Book which contains them -- but especially of the man himself, his personality and his tempers (there were more than one), his religious experience and its achievements, with the various his points of their expression; as well as his influence on the subsequent religion of his people.