English Biblical Criticism and the Pentateuch from a German Point
of View. By John Muehleisen-Arnold, B.D. Vol. L (Longman and Co.) —If any one had cherished a hope that the violence of theological hatred was now exhausted, that the disputants who were quite unfit to dispute had written themselves out, and that poor Bishop Colenso's theories would at last be investigated with temperance, this book will completely undeceive him. As usual, a controversialist who does not hesitate to describe an antagonist as without "a spark of candour and becoming reverence for truth" falls himself into the most ridiculous errors, as when he calls M. Renan a French Roman Catholic priest, and describes him as without reputation as a literary man. The general idea which per- vades this book is, that if the writer can show that the critics who deny the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch do not attribute it to the same person he thereby proves that Moses did write it. If this were so the old school of Biblical critics would have an easy task before them.
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