The Expositor.—Dean Plumptre contributes to this number the first part
of "Ezekiel : an Ideal Biography,'] which exhibits charac- teristically his method of interpretation and illustration, a method at once ingenious and sound. Archdeacon Farrar begins a series of articles, " The Reformers as Expositors," with an essay on Erasmus and the editor discusses the well-known text (Genesis iii., 1415),. under the title of " Adam's Qospel." The other articles are "Biogenesis and Degeneration," by " Almeni Peloni ;" a note by Mr. J. E. Yonge, on "Jacob's Pillar," and another, by Miss Agnes Weld,, which illustrates in a very interesting way the familiar image of the lost piece in the ten pieces of silver. Miss Weld has observed that the head-dress of coins worn by Eastern women very commonly consists of ten pieces, and that it was one of these ten which had been lost. Hence it is not an anti-climax to the image of the lost sheep. On the contrary, it is a connecting link with what follows. The coin is an heirloom associated with household memories, and so leads up to- the climax of the son that was lost and found.
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