Illustrated Bible Treasury. Edited by William Wright, D.D. (Nelson and
Sons.)—Dr. Wright, with the help of a company of able zontributors, among whom may be mentioned Sir Charles Wilson, Professors Sayce, Marcus Dods, G. Adam Smith, T. G. Bonney, and W. M. Ramsay, Lieut.-Colonel Conder, and Dr. E. Neville, has put together here a most comprehensive and useful volume. It gives us an introduction to the Old and New Testament generally, and to the separate books, a sketch of the ethnology and chronology of the Bible, and essays on Biblical geography and natural history. Then we have a concordance, a subject index, and an index of proper names. We cannot discuss the various questions which suggest themselves in relation to some, indeed most, of the essays. We see that Professor Willis Beecher, in treating the book of Daniel, maintains a guardedly conservative tone. The fact is that the position of a writer who has to con- tribute to a volume intended for popular use, but is bound to take account of the results of criticism and research, is not at all desirable. "It has been learned," writes Professor Beecher, " that the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus was effected by diplomacy rather than by bloody battles." But the account in Daniel gives a very different impression. Of special articles we may mention "The Travels of St. Paul," by Major-General Wilson, "The Astronomy of the Bible," by E. W. Maunder, and Canon Tristram's essays on Bible zoology.
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