19 DECEMBER 1908, Page 19

THE LATE PROFESSOR A. B. DAVIDSON.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—In the review of the biography of "Ian 3faclaren " which appears in your issue of last week the writer speaks of the late Professor A. B. Davidson as the author of "the commentary on the Synoptic Gospels in the Expositor's Greek Testament.'" The author of that commentary was Professor A. B. Bruce, of the United Free Church College, Glasgow. The only New Testament commentary written by Dr. Davidson is that on the Epistle to the Hebrews, in Clark's "Handbooks for Bible Classes" Series,—a cheap and unpretentious work, but in the opinion of many the best English commentary on that Epistle. "If any one wants to realise what he was," let him study the commentaries on Job and Ezekiel in the "Cambridge Bible," or his volumes on "The Theology of the Old Testament" and "Old Testament Prophecy," published by T. and T. Clark.—I am, Sir, &c.,