12 APRIL 1902, Page 25

In the " Temple Bible" (3. M. Dent and Co.,

ls. net) we have Deuteronomy, edited by G. Wilkins, B.D. The introduction marshals in a clear and convincing way the arguments against . the Mosaic authorship, and formulates a theory of the composite origin of the book upon the usual lines. Moses certainly would not have put into Joseph's mouth the words, " I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews," his kindred being still wanderers in a foreign country, or have appealed to the men who had con- quered Og a few weeks before in the words, " Behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabbath of the Children of Ammon ?" "Glosses," says the champion of the Mosaic author- ship. But where will he stop ?