16 MAY 1868, Page 19

Was St. John the Author of the Fourth Gospel ?'

By a Layman, (Longmans.)—" A Layman " states, in a temperate tone, which deserves all praise, the objections to the authenticity of the Fourth Gospel. We observe little or nothing that is novel-in the arguments which he brings forward. They have been answered, and will, we suppose, bo brought forward and answered again and again till the end of time. We cannot pretend to discuss them. But we must Bay that we cannot appreciate the objection to the miracle of the water turned into wine that it was the "giving of a luxury and superfluity." This sounds to us rather like the cavil at the " waste of the ointment."