27 AUGUST 1864, Page 23

_Reflections on the Psalms of David as Inspired Compositions. By

Jacobus. (Samuel Solomon.)—Jacobus thinks that David "deprecates. irascibility" because it induces "a tendency to derange the biliary secretions, inducing stomach and liver complaints, and often a morbid condition of the mental faculties." There is, however, a righteous anger against crime and vice, which being merely auxiliary so as to give pungency to the moral protests of the reprover of the criminally disposed, does not expose him to "any reactionary effects." Such men "era not liable to have deranged secretions." Whether this kind of comment is of a nature to raise King David in the eyes of the Jews we do not know, but it is hardly suited to Christians.