3 JUNE 1893, Page 26

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Tho Universal Bible Dictionary. By the Rev. John Macpherson, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Macpherson's volume. will doubtless be found useful, but scarcely by students of theology or divinity. The limits which he has imposed upon himself— three hundred and fifty not very closely printed pages—forbid anything like completeness. Many things and names he omits altogether, and he is compelled to state conclusions without giving the processes by which he has arrived at them. The article "Bishop," for instance, contains some hundred and twenty words ; and we see no notice of the theory of a development of Church order which has been built on the Pastoral Epistles.