15 AUGUST 1891, Page 26

How to Read Isaiah. By Buchanan Blake, D.D. (T. and

T. Clark.)—Mr. Blake has arranged the prophecies of Isaiah in the chronological order. He holds, with the vast majority of modern critics, that the book, as we have it, consists of two parts. Accordingly, in this treatise he deals with chaps. i.-xxxix. only. Even in these he finds occasional indications of other hands be- sides that of the prophet whom we may call " Hezekiah's Isaiah." The duration of Isaiah's ministry he calculates at about forty years (742-701). This would make the end of it about contem- poraneous with Sennacherib's repulse before Jerusalem. What- ever we may think of this or that detail in Mr. Blake's work, there can be no doubt of its general utility.