25 JANUARY 1890, Page 22

The Moods of the English Bible the Same as in

Latin and Greek. By Gavin Hamilton. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.)—We cannot profess to have exactly understood what Mr. Gavin Hamilton means when he speaks of the "imperial subjunctive." But he has certainly collected in this volume a great number of instances of usage. Whether scholars will always draw the same con- clusions from them, is doubtful.