16 JULY 1892, Page 26

The Law in the Prophets. By Stanley Leathes, D.D. (Eyre

and Spottiswoode.)—This is an argument on the conservative side in Biblical criticism. Dr. Leathes's object is to prove the antiquity of the Mosaic Law by the references that are made to it in the books of the Prophets, books that are conceded on all hands to have at least a considerable relative antiquity. The contention of the extremists that the whole legal ritual is post- Exilian, certainly lays itself open to hostile criticism. The appeal of the prophets to the Hebrew people seems founded on the fact that there was a covenant which that people had broken.