Hugh Melville's Quest. By F. M. Holmes. (W. and R.
Chambers.) —News is brought one evening to Lady Melville and Hugh that the head of the family has been killed in fighting with the Spaniards, and the eldest son captured and put to the galleys. Hugh's quest is the recovery of his brother, and this be accom- plishes after much fighting and exciting midnight visits to Spanish galleys to discover if his brother be among the sleeping rowers. It is not till the battle of Gravelines disperses the Great Armada that Harry Melville is found, and saved just in the nick of time. A refreshing stirring story in Hugh Melville's Quest, and one sure to delight young boys, and young girls too.
Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest. By Agnes Smith Lewis. (Macmillan and Co.)—We cannot do more than call the attention of students of the Bible to this volume; to examine it in detail would be a work beyond the scope of these columns. The controversy roused by the occur- rence in Matt. i. 16 of the words corresponding to the Greek 'cal Ix(*) Pyivynasy Inn-otip, according to the formula of the earlier steps of the genealogy, is likely to last some time. Passing on, as from too thorny a subject, we may note that the disputed ending of St. Mark's Gospel is absent, and absent in such a way as to show that it never existed. Some of the minor peculiarities are highly interesting. In the account of the Crucifixion we are told that Jesus wore the thorn-crown.---With this may be mentioned The Syro-Latin Text of the Gospels, by Frederick Henry Chase (same publishers). Mr. Chase has selected passages from the Gospels, and comments on the differences exhibited between the Syro-Latin and the text ; it is settled from the Greek codices.
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