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CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll. Vol. VIII., Fourth Series. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The volume opens with a highly interesting letter from Professor Mommsen on "Christianity in the Roman Empire," which is followed by three papers from the pen of Professor Ramsay on the same sub-

ject, all worthy of most careful consideration for the light that they throw on the origin of Christianity. Mr. F. H. Chase criticises Professor Ramsay's view of the " Galatia" with which St. Paul had to do. Of other contents of the volume, we may mention Professor A. B. Bruce's six essays (in continuation of an earlier series) on "St. Paul's Conception of Christianity;" a curious speculation, by Mr. F. C. Conybeare, on the authorship of the doubtful passage with which St. Mark's Gospel concludes ; a discussion between Professors Driver and Marshall on a supposed Aramaic Gospel ; and a paper on "Sin," by Mr. R. W. Dale. Among the minor contents of the volume may be noticed an interesting note by Mr. T. H. Darton on the " Fish-curing " practised in the lake region of Galilee.