THE NAME OF SHYLOCK

Dr. Farmer has stated that Shakspere took the name which he has given to one of the leading characters in the *Merchant of Venice* from a pamphlet entitled *Caleb Shilloche, or the Jew's Prediction*. The date of the pamphlet, however, being some years posterior to that of the play, renders this origin impossible. Mr. C. Knight, who points out this error, adds—"*Scialac* was the name of a Marionite of Mount Libanus." But "query," Was not *Shylock* a proper name among the Jews, derived from the designation employed by the patriarch Jacob in predicting the advent of the Messiah—"until Shiloh come…