A second edition is published of The Student's Handbook of
the Psalms, by the late John Sharpe, D D. (Eyre & Spottiswoode. 6s ) Dr. Sinker prefixes a memoir of the author, a zealous student and parish priest, by whose death at a comparatively early age —be was in his fiftieth year—the Church suffered a great loss. Dr. Sharpe was a conservative in criticism and theology, some- times, it may be, even reactionary. His language about the "Imprecatory Psalms" seems to us unnecessarily rigid. It can hardly be said that the Psalmist never speaks of private enemies. Even could this be conceded, still the words may well trouble the conscience. And why not follow the Master's example ? If He forbade His Disciples to imitate the action of Elijah, why may one not object to the words of David,—if, indeed, the Psalmist was David ? The volume, as a whole, is full of valuable matter, and will be found useful by the student.—Anotber new edition is Thi House of Atreus, by G. T. Morsbead, M.A. (Macmillan and Co., 2s. 6d. net). This is a translation into English verse of the three plays of Aeschylus which dealt with the doom of the Atridae, the Agamemnon, the Choephoroe, and the Eumenides. This translation, the work of one who will be recognised as the most successful of all living writers in his own line, first appeared in 1881, and is now republished with corrections.
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