The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll. (Hodder
and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—This annual volume (VIII. of the sixth series) is full, as usual, of excellent matter. Most of the articles do not admit of brief description. We may mention, however, Professor J. H. Moulton's continuation of "Notes from the Papyri," with their interesting illustrations from the language of common life and business. The millstone (a6aos Evtxds) of Mark ix. 42 is paralleled by xatsvAmol Aleut (stones which only a camel could draw). The existence of the norm Aal6r, denied by Blass, is proved by various instances: -minis, as mean- ing "with only the xir6v left," is quoted; there is a curious parallel to a perplexing New Testament usage in xaipe Kea fporriCirc The name Onesimus, discarded as a fancy creation, is found in a tablet at Cyzious. A notable proof brought forward by Professor W. M. Ramsay to show the extreme variations in the frequency of writing at different times is to be found in " Travel and Correspondence Among the Early Christians." Early in the sixth century B.C. a body of mercenaries halted at Abu Simbel on their way south. Quite a number of them wrote their names on the stones and statues, and even notes on the events and aims of the campaign. Most of them were, it is certain, of a low class. Yet many centuries afterwards the Crusaders, with thousands of well-born and high-placed person- ages, ecclesiastical and lay, among them, occupied Palestine for many years, but left scarcely an inscription. The passion for such writing is universal. But the Greek mercenaries could write, and the Crusaders could not.
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