The Annotated Bible : the New Testament. By the Rev.
John Henry Blunt. (Rivingtmis.)—Mr. Blunt, whose industry is really quite phenomenal, has completed in this volume his "household com- mentary on the Holy Scriptures." For those who are satisfied to keep on the old paths, this work supplies in a most convenient form all that can be wanted. It will always give them a carefully con- sidered and intelligible explanation of any passage which seems to require comment. It will not weary them with superfluous reflec- tions; in fact, it will serve as a most handy book of reference. But it certainly " comprehends the results of modern discovery and criti- cism," to quote the language of the title-page in a strictly limited sense. Where "discovery and criticism" have had to do with matter strictly historical or geographical, their aid has been accepted ; but they have not been suffered to modify traditional methods of interpretation, traditional views of authorship and of the genuineness
of doubtful passages. Sometimes Mr. Blunt does not think proper to notice a doubt ; elsewhere he takes with almost unvarying regu- larity what may be called the orthodox side, though, indeed, with many of the points orthodoxy is in no way concerned. The volume contains an excellent index to the whole Bible.
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