24 MARCH 1923, Page 18

Is the Higher Criticism Scholarly ? By Robert Dick Wilson,

Ph.D., D.D. (Marshall Bros., Ltd. Is. net.) Professor Wilson, who knows forty-five languages, thinks not. He believes " that no man knows enough to assail the truthfulness of the Old Testament," and to prove his point he ransacks literature from the inscriptions of Hanunumbi to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.