How the Coder was Found. By Margaret Dunlop Gibson. (Mac-
millan and Bowes, Cambridge.)—By the " Codex' is meant a, Syrian Codex of the Gospels of very early date, a document of un- doubtedly great importance. The finding was accomplished at the first visit; what else was done in the way of photographing, copying, reviving of faded passages (a most successful process), is told in this volume, along with a number of interesting personal experiences. The monks seem to have been accommodating and sensible ; but then their visitors came with high recommendations of their own, as well as from others. We are glad to have this volume ; it is interesting in many ways. Mrs. Gibson tells us, in anticipation of what we are to learn hereafter, that the disputed ending of St. Mark's Gospel is not found in the Codex. St. Luke's Gospel com- mences on the same page, leaving no room for the doubtful verses. In St. Luke, the greeting of the angels is, "Goodwill towards men I "
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