19 OCTOBER 1901, Page 22

We have received the second and completing volume of 17e

Contendings of the Apostles (Henry Frowde, 25s. net). This contains the English translation, by Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, of the Ethiopio texts, which were printed in the first volume. The legends on which these histories are based. are of very erea antiquity, mostly, it is supposed, of heretical origin. Any one who will take the trouble to examine will find them curious. in the extreme. They help us to realise what a strange collutnes of opinions and beliefs the actual Christianity of the early We not the fittest form which survived, really was.