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The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. (The Cambridge Uni- versity

Press.)—This volume, taken as a whole, may be commended to the student. We cannot express our unqualified assent to all that we find in it-9.8, e.g., Professor Stanton's apology for the wars of extermination waged by Israel—but the utility of the volume and its general excellence is beyond all question. Among the contributors we find Professor Ryle, who writes on "The Struc- ture" and "Limits and Growth of the Bible ; " Bishop Westoott,

who contributes a paper "On the Sacred Books of Pm-Christian Religion;" and Dr. Sinker, who writes on "The Preservation and Translation of the Bible."