We have received in an elegant little volume the Fourth
Centenary Edition of Luther's Table-Talk. (T. Fisher ITuwin.)—The Table-Talk was first published in 1564, from the notes of a certain John Gold- sohmidt, supplemented by the recollections of friends. In its ultimate shape it is an immense book, in four solid volumes, and this is, of course, only a slight and not by any means adequate specimen of it. That, however, would not be pasy to give in moderate dimensions. As " J. G.," • wbo writes a pleasant little introduction to the edition, remarks :— " Luther's reputation has gained, rather than lost, through the some- what indiscreet publication of his familiar Table-Talk." It may not be inappropriate to .quote from this same introduction what Dr. Malinger has written of the Reformer. " Luther's supereminent ,greatness of soul, and his marvellous many-sidedness, made him the man of his time and the man of his people. There never was a German who understood his people with each intuitive perception, and who was eo understood—I may say drank in—by his people, as this Augustinian Monk of Wittenberg."
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