A Plain Account of the English Bible. By J. H.
Blunt, M.A.. (Rivingtons.)—We gather that Mr. Blunt's ideal of an "English Bible" is a book of devotion rather than a critical version, for -which, indeed, according to the theory which we suppose him to hold, there can be little or no use. This accounts for the attitude which he assumes with regard to the proposed revision of the Authorized Version, though it does excuse the rudeness with which he speaks of its promoters. And this is the raison cretre of his book, which, though good enough in its way, has no claim to be compared with Professor Weatcott's admirable treatise on the same subject. On one point in particular, one not to be passed over even in the briefest notice of this matter, the credit to be given to Tyndale, we very much prefer Professor Westcott's estimate, to the very short and slighting notice which Mr. Blunt takes of his labours. Is it quite good taste to speak of "Dr. .1Vewritan and other Dissenters" .* It is not much dispraise in our eyes, but it is meant to be so. Surely, on Mr. Blunt's own theories, Dr. Newman's position is, to say the least, as defensible as his own. Dr. Newman has acted on the belief which Mr. Blunt and his friends seem to hold, that the Reformation was a schis- matic proceeding.
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