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JESUS : A MYTH. By Georg Brandes. from the Danish by _E. Bjorkman. (Brentanos. 6s From time to time an attempt is made by critics of Christi to disprove the historic existence of Jesus of N873 but it is safe to say that no New Testament scholar of first rank, however heterodox, has ever been found to su this view. It is therefore as astonishing as it is refire to find the veteran Danish critic, Dr. Brandes, ren this eccentric opinion, and presenting it in an inconseque and venomous essay which does little credit either to judgment or his. good taste. What, indeed, are we to Si
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a mind which is filled with reverence " when contempt the excellent sanitary regulations of Deuteronomy, finds the Parables often " burlesque" ; and considers the ethics of the " vagrant preaching youth " who is hero of " the strangely composed mess that is called Gospel according to St. Mark," fall below the star) contemporary Paganism ? Had this boOk been the of an unknown author, it would hardly have achieved lication : its appearance in English does no service to writer's reputation.
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