Gleanings in Many .Fields. Collected by the late Thomas nornby,
M.A. (E. Howell, Liverpool.)—These two volumes are scarcely subjects for criticism. Mr. Hornby, who died in 1890, WSW accustomed during his long ministerial life—he was vicar of Walton-on-the-Hill for more than forty years—to collect notes, extracts from commentators, Patristic and other, with miscel- laneous illustrations of the New Testament. From these a selection has now been made, on the principle of choosing, in preference, passages from theological reviews and magazines, and from current literature. The result has been two volumes,—one devoted to the Gospels and the Acts, the other to the rest of the New Testament. That there is Much that is valuable in them need not be said. We agree with the editor that it would have been a pity if the results of all this work had been lost. Mr. Hornby wits evidently a wide and judicious reader.
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