The Pulpit Commentary, edited by the Very Rev. Dean Spence
and the Rev. S. Joseph Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is nearing its end. In the present volume, we have the Epistles to the Thessalonians, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Epistle to Philemon. For "Thessalonians," the exposition and homiletics have been fur- nished by Dr. P. J. Gloag, and the homilies by the Rev. Professor Croskery and Messrs. B. C. Caffin, W. F. Adeney, and R. Finlayson ; the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Messrs. Croskery, Finlayson, and Statham, deal with the Pastoral Epistles ; while " Philemon " has been entrusted to the Rev. S. J. Ealee, Professor Croskery, and the Rev. W. M. Statham. The work of which this is an instalment has assumed gigantic proportions. Fourteen of the Old Testament and sir of the New Testament series have already been published, and these are of the largest octavo size. Bulk is in itself no merit; but it is impossible to deal adequately with Scriptures in the way of exegesis and homily without a very considerable latitude of space. This the publishers have given ; thanks to their enterprise, to careful editorial supervision, and the co-operation of a very numerous company of able contributors, theological literature will be enriched with a book of great value. As we write, two more volumes, Minor Prophets (1) and St. John, have reached us.
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