12 MAY 1917, Page 15

The Gospel according to St. Mark. With Introduction and Notes.

Edited by W. C. Allen. (Rivingtons. 7s. net.)—Students who have used Archdeacon Allen's commentary on St. Matthew's Gospel will turn with interest to his edition of St. Mark. The plan of the book is somewhat different ; it includes, for example, a translation which attempts to give the English reader some impression of the linguistic features of the Greek. The introduction is specially interesting from its advocacy of an Aramaic original and a Palestinian origin, and also of a very early date not later than A.D. 50 and perhaps ten years earlier. The editor has made no attempt to compile a full commentary, but has written notes on passages where he had himself some contribution to make.