The Book of Job. By the late Rev. George Croly,
LL.D. (Black- wood and Sons.)—This small work, which is edited by its author's sou, contains the views held by the late Dr. Croly on the subject of the "Book of Job." These views may be summarized in very few words. Dr. Croly is of opinion that Job was a real person, that he himself wrote the book that bears his name, that the object of thaf book is to inculcate the doctrine that calamity is not necessarily a proof of sin, and, finally, that the history of Job is a type, of which the anti-type is the history of the Jews from the kingdom of David and Solomon to the end of the world. The least that can be said for this last view is that it will bear comparison with the theory maintained by Jerome and other interpreters, that Job was a type of Christ. Prefixed to the volume is a memoir of its author, by Mr. F. W. °rely, who takes occasion to express his belief that the reason why Dr. Croly failed to obtain that amount of preferment which his admirers conceive to have been his due, was that he was an Irishman and a man of genius.
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