Subject: Book reviews

Three-page letter written by Isaac Strouse to Isaac Leeser on December 23, 1852, from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Strouse discusses his recently written book, a translation and interpretation of D. Ottensoser's work on Josephus, and requests Leeser's review and mention in *The Occident*. The letter also includes a list of approximately 40 previous issues of *The Occident* that Strouse wishes to purchase.

Newspaper supplement to Niles' Weekly Register, Volume IV, New Series, No. 20, published in Baltimore, Maryland on August 21, 1819. This issue contains a review of Mordecai Manuel Noah's *Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-1815*, potentially the first review of a book by a Jewish American author.

This excerpt from the *North American Review*, Volume 24 (1826), contains a critical review of Jacob Newton Cardozo's treatise on political economy. The review, spanning pages 169-187, provides an assessment of Cardozo's work by an anonymous author for the *North American Review*. Cardozo was a well-known economist and editor, who died in 1873 at the age of 84.

This book contains a 25-page critical review of Jacob N. Cardozo's work, "Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy," by Thomas Cooper, president of the South Carolina College. The review is published in Volume 1 of the Southern Review, 1828, pages 192-217.