25 JANUARY 1890, Page 44

The Biblical Illustrator. By the Rev. Joseph Exell. (j. Nisbet

and Co.)—The second and third volumes of the Illustrator for St. Luke have now appeared, containing together nearly fifteen hundred additional pages. Surely this is a length which tran- scends all reasonable limits. We have no wish to discourage the useful labours of the compiler, labour in which Mr. Ezell has made himself most serviceable to his brother-clergy. But est modus. Robert Hall once spoke of a man who had, he said, so many books on his head that his brains could not move. Young preachers nowadays are likely to be similarly paralysed by the multitude and magnitude of the helps which are supplied to them.