25 AUGUST 1906, Page 23

The Bible and its Critics. By the Rev. James Crompton.

(A. H. Stockwell. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Crompton must learn much before he is competent to deal with the very serious subject of Biblical criticism. Let him begin by mastering the names of the critics whom he attacks, and not write " Cheyney " and " Colenzo." Let him forbear from embittering the controversy by talking of " fools " and " knaves " in connexion with the attribution of certain writings to famous names. When a Hebrew writer pre- fixed the name of Solomon to his own work he simply meant to do honour to the "Wise King." To put into the mouth of a critic, when he maintains that a book bears a conventional name, the charge of knavery against the writer is monstrous.