22 AUGUST 1891, Page 16

THE MODERN CRITICISM OF THE BIBLE.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.""

SIR,—You are too modest, and your correspondent is too bold, when he asserts that you suppress all mention of Kuenen, Wellhausen, Robertson Smith, Farrar, and Haweis. I forget whether you have reviewed the last writer,* though I think you have done so. But as to all the others, every one who reads the Spectator, and who knows anything of Biblical criticism, knows that you have given critical and argumentative reviews of them (as also of Canon Cheyne, Orelli, and the Rev. George Adam Smith), and this by writers evidently fully acquainted with the books under review, and who use, in discussing questions of Hebrew literature, the methods employed by the best critics of the classical books of Greece