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The Prolegomena of Jean Hardouin. (Angus and Robertson, Sydney. 6s.

net.)—Pere Hardouin, S.J., held that all the classics except Cicero, Pliny the Elder, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, were fabrications of the thirteenth century. Mr. Edwin Johnson added to this list of apocryphal books all the "Apostolic" and "Early Christian" writings, and came to the conclusion that Christianity was evolved out of Islam. Mr. E. A. Petherick, who writes a preface to this volume, intervenes

with a chronological theory. We have got seven hundred and fifty-three years somehow added to our date. " We are only in A.D. 1156." How far this is helpful we cannot say ; it seems to us 1,hat there are some difficulties about it.