a committee of clerey and laity, by distinguished men of
the English and Scotch Churches. It is carious in what differing forms a subject which has once come to the surface of the general thought crops up.
Now it is our greatest novelist who gives to her latest prose work a completely Jewish atmosphere; then articles regarding the Jews, or written by their foremost men, appear in our periodicals ; and now, again, we have this series of lectures, full of a sympathy which must be appreciated by a people of such intensity of feeling.
Helps to the Study of th3 Bible (Oxford University Press), is really what its title implies. It is, in fact, an index to the Bible, with a concordance, a dictionary of Scripture proper names, lists of animals, birds, reptiles, plants, &c., mentioned in Scripture, the meanings of words obsolete or ambiguous, tables of weights, measures, and time, and a series of maps, added. It is well and neatly bound in the flap or fall-over style, which effectually protects the corners and edges of 'much used books,—a style we should like to see become more general.
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