22 FEBRUARY 1890, Page 25

The Bible True from the Beginning. By Edward Gough. Vol.

II. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Gough carries on his work as far as the end of the fifth chapter of Exodus, and promises to complete it in five more volumes. He is an allegoriser of the most thorough-going kind. The narratives of Scripture are, he thinks, " moral rather than literal history." This is proved by the "grade words" which he supposes himself to have discovered, as Mr. Ignatius Donnelly discovered the Bacon-Shakespeare cipher. The reader is assured that if he will read some chapters patiently, he will be convinced of the truth of the discovery. Without this, any examples that we might quote of Mr. Gough's method would probably appear, as we must allow they appear to us, fanciful in the extreme.