THEOLOGY.—The Epistles of the New Testament in Current and Popular
Idiom. By Henry Hayman, D.D. (A. and C. Black. 3s. 61) —Dr. Hayman prints the Authorised Version of the Epistles on one page and a paraphrase in the ordinary language of the day on the other. As far as we have been able to examine we find it well done. Possibly it might have been made more copious with advantage. Some apace is gained by continuous printing, the Authorised text being in verses. The gain is possibly a fifth or a sixth. But it would not have been too much to double it. We wish, too, that the order of the Epistles had been made as far as possible chronological. How much better, for instance, to have the Epistle of James first; as it almost undoubtedly is the earliest in date. The whole of it is characteristic of its time of writing. But Dr. Hayman has done something of real value for students of the Bible.—Of "Books of Devotion" we have For Quiet Moments, "Devotional Readings from the Published and Unpublished Writings of the Right Rev. G. -H. Wilkinson, D.D., Bishop of St. Andrews," selected and arranged by J. H. Burn, B.D. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 2s. 6d.) ; A Book of Daily Strength, edited by V. D. Davis (Philip Green, 3s. 6cl. net); For Cloudy Days, compiled by Harriet G. Colvile (R.T.S.), a book of extracts in prose and verse.
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