24 JULY 1886, Page 26

The Resultant Greek Testament. By Richard Francis Weymouth, D.Lit. (Elliot

Stash.)—This is a volume on which very cinch might be written, but failing that (only to be done by an expert with much leisure at his disposal), for which a few lines must suffice. It exhibits "the text on which the majority of editors are agreed," and "con- tains all the readings of the chief editors since the Textus Receptus (Stephens, 1550), down to Weatcott and Hort and the Committee of Revisers. Dr. Weymouth disclaims any credit for collation of 116S., or for comparison of patristic quotations. His work, not less vain- able because it can be done in his own study, has been to take the printed books and to give the general results of the labours which they represent. Industry, candour, nod an open mind to receive conclusions are the chief qualifications for such a task, and these, with the necessary scholarship, Dr. Weymonth brings to it. His work is one which students of the Bible will find convenient and useful. Its importanee must not be measured by the brevity of the notice which we give it.----The Gospel According to St. Luke, with Notes, Critical and Practical, by the Rev. M. F. Sadler (Bell and Son), is a book which combines the exegetical and homiletical character. The latter, perhaps, is made rather too preponderate over the other. Ie xi., 33, for instance, though Mr. Sadler mentions that "a bushel" should be "the bushel," and " a candlestick " " the lempetand," he does not think it worth while to tell his readers that these are two chief articles in the scanty furniture of the Syrian home, but devotes the whole of his space to " practical" observations. In xii., 5, " Fear him which after he hath killed," &c., Mr. Sadler interprets, we see, of the "Father of mercies." His is a laborious volume, from which much may be gained, but we cannot commend it without reservation.