2 SEPTEMBER 1899, Page 25

Genesis in Harmony with Itself and with Science. By G.

Rapkin. (Christian Commonwealth Publishing Company. 5s.)—It is needless to follow Mr. Rapkin into all his explanations and sup- positions. If he means to please the ultra-conservative critics, he will hardly do so, for he accepts the theory of many races of men, of a partial Deluge, &c. (though he concedes that there are ex- pressions which indicate totality,—the writer of Genesis, beyond all doubt, thought of the Deluge as total). There is no little. in- genuity and some learning in the book, but we do not anticipate that it will help much in settling the Scripture v. science oustroveray.