18 JUNE 1864, Page 24

Kitto's Cydopaclia of Biblical Literature. Vol. II. Third Edition. By

W. L. Alexander, D.D. (Adam and Charles Black.)—The value of this work as a repertory of the facts necessary to explain the Scriptures is well known to the public. It has been carefully revised, and the dis- coveries of the latest travellers carefully embodied in it. The literary papers seem to us notably behind the criticism of the day, as, for instance, in the paper on "Inspiration," which goes on the old system of refusing to admit facts which appear plainly on the face of the Bible because consequences may be deduced from them ,Thich seem to the writer undesirable. This, however, especially in Scotland, may be ex- pedient in a selling point of view.