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CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Expositor. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —We heartily welcome the first volume of the new (fifth) series of The Expositor, edited by the Rev. W. Robertson. The first paper, by Dean Farrar, gives an account of one of the most interesting of modern discoveries, the Sinaitic palimpsest of the Syrian Gospel. We are inclined to think that the Syrian scribe or translator was a heretic, but if he was, while omitting, doubtless with this view, sat °be is,f7Y4)(fKEV, he did not alter all the other passages bearing on the fact. Professor Ramsay writes a review of Professor G. A. Smith's Historic Geography of the Holy Land, and contributes, with other essays, one on the words of travel used in the New Testament. The volume is enriched with con- tributions by Professor Sir J. William Dawson, Mr. J. W. Diggle, and others.