19 MARCH 1904, Page 18

ANGLO-SAXONS AND THE BIBLE.

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

Si,—In your very interesting article on "Anglo-Saxons and the Bible" in the Spectator of March 12th, surely it ought not to have been assumed that "it was the same man who stood guilty before Nathan that wrote" Psalm ciii. Both the language and the substance of that Psalm have caused it to be assigned to a much later date than David's by all critical writers,—by the more moderate of them as well as by the more extreme. Thus, for instance, Dr. W. T. Davison in Hastings's "Dictionary of the Bible" (Vol. IV., p. 150) names it among "Psalms ascribed to David [which] cannot by any possi-