CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Expositor. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Robertson's article on "The Graphic Element in the Old Testament" is a very interest- ing contribution to the illustrating of Scripture language, and the elucidating of obscure passages from still remaining Eastern customs. What may be done in this way is well shown by an anecdote told by the writer. He had undertaken a boys' Bible class at Beyront, and
found, as he says, that "the stock material for teaching such a class at home was taken from him." "From a literary point of view, there was nothing to explain." Archdeacon Farrar gives an estimate, on the whole very unfavourable, of "The Exegesis of the Schoolmen," which, as he points out, was vitiated throughout by the system of allegorical interpretation. Dr. Oswald Dykes continues his excellent commentary on the Epistle to Titus. The other articles are "Some Names in Genesis," by the Rev. Edgar C. S. Gibson ; "Comfort in Cares," by the Editor; and "The Heavenly Life," by Almoni Peloni.
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