SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hays not ism reserved for review in other forms.] The Composition of the Book of Isaiah. By the Rev. Robert H. Kennett, D.D. (H. Frowde, for the British Academy. 3s. net.)— Professor Kennett examines from the historic and the linguistic points of view—his argument is in the main of the first kind, though considerations of language have contributed to the results —the composition of the prophecies of Isaiah. The conclusions at which he has arrived may be thus summarised: About a fourth of the book is attributed to Isaiah, the son of Amos (i.-x., with the omission of forty-odd verses, portions of xiv., xvii., xx., xxii., and xxviii. partly, xxxi.). Thirteen chapters altogether or in part are assigned to the time of Cyrus ; six in a similar way to the period between Nebuchadnezzar and Alexander; one passage (aria 1-14) to 332 B.C., and there is a somewhat startling conclusion ascrib- ing about a half of the whole book to the second century B.O., this portion including all the chapters from xlix. to the end. The great " Servant of the Lord " section is thus brought down to the MaccabEean era. This is different from the popular view ; but, after all, the Maccabuan era is the most heroic in Jewish history.
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