20 APRIL 1867, Page 22

Magazine, as we gather from Dean Alford's preface. His object

in reprinting them is " to put into the hands of the ordinary English reader in a popular form, Borne of those results of thought and criticism which are commonly deposited out of his reach in bulky commentaries!' With this view the Dean has placed at the end of each chapter a list of those passages in which the received text differs from that of the best MSS., and of those in which our translators have not given the full force of the original. This alone would make his little book extremely valuable, but his comments on the Gospels have an independent merit, and will recommend the Dean to thoughtful readers, as his corrections willamake him of use to students.