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The Merton Prize Essay, 1879 : the Authenticity, Character, and

of very great ability, learning, and candour ; which appreciates at their full value all the difficulties affecting the authorship of the Fourth Gospel, and yet judges the question in what appears to us the most reasonable spirit, by accepting the authorship of John as involving loss difficulty, and bettor meeting the whole requisites of a very compli- cated case, than any other proposed solution. Mr. Dalton promises to be a great accession to the critical power of the English Church.