SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we 710UOL such Books of the week as have not been reserved for mine in other forms.]
William P. Moulton. By W. Fiddian Moulton. (Isbister and Co. 7s. 6d.)—Mr. Moulton was by descent a Wesleyan of the Wesleyans. His grandmother, Maria Bakewell, was the daughter of an intimate friend of John Wesley ; his grandfather and father were ministers in the Connexion. His mother was the daughter of a Circuit Steward. The services that he himself rendered to
the religious body to which he belonged were beyond estimate. Perhaps the greatest of them was the fact that for the first time he brought a Wesleyan into the front rank of scholars. His range of attainment was something extraordinary. His classical scholarship was not of the very highest, but he was a mathematician of no little power, and had a wide acquaintance with Oriental languages. He knew something of science, was a mu ician of some skill, and was deeply read in English litera- ture. But his chief distinction lay in the direction of Biblical scholarship. He was one of the ablest of the company of New Testament Revisers, when he belonged to the " Progres- sive" party. The chapter on this part of his life's work has been contributed by Mr. J. H. Moulton. It should be read with special care. In 1858 he was appointed to an assistant tutorship at the Wesleyan College at Richmond, being pro- moted ten years afterwards to a full tutorship. In 1874 he took up the Head-Mastership of the Leys School, Cambridge, and here he remained till his death in 1895. In 1890 he was elected to the Presidency of the Conference. No fault can be found with the temper in which the biography has been written.
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