Daniel in the Critics' Den. By Sir Robert Anderson. (Nisbet
and Co. 38. 6d. net.)—Sir Robert Anderson will probably find a great number of sympathisers. but he will hardly be able to turn back the tide of modern criticism. We cannot argue the points in question between him and Canon Driver and Dean Farrar. One thing, however, we may remark, that it would have been well if Sir Robert had asked some judicious friend to revise his proofs and remove the acerbities of language which abound in his argument. We would also point out that he is somewhat vague in his use of language. Canon Rawlinson is an instructive writer, but he can hardly be said to be "our best historical authority" (p. 23); while a "Table of Babylonian Kings" that appears on the authority of the Victorian Institute cannot be said to do much to "dispose of a difficulty" (p. 29). To many reverent readers the greatest difficulty in the book is the minute predictions of the later chapters. This, of course, does not affect Sir Robert Anderson, who, indeed, rests his cue considerably on certain chronological arguments. The ideas of "fixed fate" and "foreknowledge v. absolute" seem to some thoughtful persons to militate against the highest conception of th: prophet as the proclaimer of spiritual and moral law.
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