19 MARCH 1864, Page 24

The Gospel of St. Matthew. A new translation. By John

H. Godwin. (Samuel Bagater and Sons.)--New translations of the Now Testament are becoming a nuisance. This particular one constantly varies the language of the authorized version quite unnecessarily and merely for the sake of varying it. It appears, to us on the other hand, to be in the highest degree desirable to preserve it unchanged, wherever it is pos- sible to do so without absolute error, and, moreover, desirable that any new rendering should be the work of scholars whose names carry more authority with them than can be attributed to that of Mr. Godwin.