The First Twelve Chapters of the Gospel according to St.
Matthew. In the received Greek text, with various readings and notes. By the
late Rev. J. Forshall. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Forshall was formerly keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum, and had projected an edition of the Gospels "to expose the errors of modern editors, and maintaining the general integrity of Scripture as road in the Church of England." At his death he had written the critical notes to the first two Gospels, and expository notes to the first twelve chapters of St. Matthew. l'hose last are only complete for the first six chapters. We cannot help saying that Mr. Forshall's son has not, we think, done wisely to publish these very fragmentary remains. That the subscribers would require this ocular proof to convince them that a real effort had boon made to carry out the undertaking is an excuse really trivial. And if any part wore to be published it would surely have boon better to print the critical notes to Matthew and Mark, which wore in some sense complete. The expository notes are a more fragment, and of very much less value. Mr. Forshall wrote of course in a polemical and ultra-conservative spirit.
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