Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture. Compiled
by T. H. Barlow, M.A., and H. F. Moule, M.A. (the Bible House. 63s.)—We must explain that it is the whole work which is thus priced and that the volumes aro not sold separately. Vol. i., containing the English section, along with a number of hooks in dialect, appeared in 1903. Now vol. ii, is published in throe parts, containing together 1,849 pages. We offer our congratulations to the Society which has conducted this enterprise and to the editors whose unfailing industry and learning have brought it to a successful termination. It is a magnificent work, worthy of the great society from which it proceeds—a society whose labours are now receiving, we rejoice to know, a wider and more generous recognition than has ever before been accorded to them. The catalogue is founded, so to speak, on the contents of the Society's library, but it includes many other volumes (marked with distinguishing brackets). First come 36 pages of Polyglot Bibles (the whole or parts), the latest being one with Hebrew (a revised Masoretic text), Greek, Latin, with French by the AMA Gloiro, the publication of which was commenced in Paris in 1898. As specimens of the text we may take the German section, consisting of 69 pages, together with nine more in which versions in Yiddish and other "jargon" dialects are found, and the Zan concluding the whole series. This section contains 4.19 pages. The earliest publication recorded is of the data of 1846, when a zealous missionary led the way by publishing some passages from the Book of Genesis. The latest is a new edition of a complete translation in the Zulu tongue, which appeared in 1003.
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