The Romance of Precious Bibles. By the Rev. Sidney N.
Sedgwick. (Bagster and Sons. 6s.)—Mr. Sedgwick takes us from the Samaritan Pentateuch to Tyndale's translation. There is a refreshing breadth about his views of things. He gives utterance to the feeling with which many of us mast read the dealing of Ezra with the " strange women," who were certainly not to blame, what- ever may have been the case with the Jews to whom they were married. In the second story we are taken to Alexandria when the struggle between Orthodox and Arian was at its height, and George the Cappadocian comes out better than we have been used to think of him. The Lindisfarne Gospel brings in the Danes, and the Irish Psalter St. Columba in the stormy days of his Irish life. Then we have the story of how the Codex Bente was acquired at Toledo. " Wickliffe's Bible" and "Anne Boleyn's Testament" conclude the series. The idea is a good one, and has been carried out with no little literary skill and in a spirit of comprehensive sympathy.
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