Isaiah : his Life and Times. By the Rev. S.
R. Driver, D.D. (Nisbet and (Jo.)—Professor Driver adds to the title which we have quoted above, "And the Writings which Bear his Name." Ile is, indeed, quite clear that the author of chapters xl.-lxvi. was "a prophet writing towards the close of the Babylonian captivity." He remarks, with much force, that the "historical background of the prophecy is the period of the Babylonian captivity." Many of the material circumstances which surround the writer seem Babylonian. The detailed examples . given on pp. 191-93 are striking. The argument of style, too, is very care- fully drawn out. But whether or no the reader agrees with this conclusion of the writer, he will be sure to find much that he will admire in the author's general treatment of his subject. There has been no better volume in this series of "Men of the Bible."
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