The Bible by Modern Light. By Cunningham Geikie, D.D. (Nisbet.)
— Dr. Cunningham Geikie's well-known and highly
valued work which bears the title of "Hours with the Bible" appears again under his name, but with considerable change and addition. It is, the author tells us, "an entirely new edition, largely rewritten." Two volumes are before us, at this time of writing,—the first taking in the period from " Moses to the Judges ; " the second, from " Samson to Solomon." The author writes from a combination of careful observations of the actual scenes of the history, and an equally careful study of the Hebrew records. The illustrative matter which he introduces is copious and appropriate. He does well, we think, generally to avoid the critical attitude. For that, also, there is a place ; but it is not in books of this kind.—We must be content, for the present, with
a brief notice of what will be found a useful companion to the above,—The Gospel : a Companion to the Life of Our Lord. (Same author and publishers.)—Here again the author's knowledge of the sacred localities is called in with happy effect to explain and illustrate.
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