The Sunday at Home. (R.T.S. 7s. 6d.)—This yearly volume is
even unusually full of good things. A story by Mr. Crockett, to begin with, is no small attraction ; Miss Amy Le Feuvre contri- butes another story; and the miscellaneous contents are as varied and as excellent in quality as can be desired. In the range of subjects the conductors of the magazine seem to us to hit a very just medium. We might say that the tone is Sunday-like with- out being Sabbatarian. The variety of topics dealt with is quite beyond all classification. When we mention one or two papers we are quite aware that we pass over many not less worthy of notice. Mr. S. Kerchbaum contributes three highly interesting papers on New Testament MSS., illustrated with facsimiles. We see that he has a very high opinion of the Codex Bezae. He may be right. The recently discovered logic have a certain resem- blance to the peculiar phrases found in the Coder, but one shrinks from the disturbance which would follow if the text were remodelled on the lines of D. A paragraph might, we think, have been given with advantage to the papyri frag- ments. They are insignificant in quantity ; but their age and the place where they were found throw back the date of the New Testament writings in a very remarkable way. The St. John fragment is probably a hundred years older than any of the great codices. Not less significant is the passage of Romans which some schoolboy has copied or written from memory. Schoolboy exercises are always from well-established books. There are many biographical papers of special interest; we must single out from among them a sympathetic appreciation of Dean Farrar. Measured by his influence over boy hearers, who are commonly hard to reach, he was a most effective preacher.
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