The Medical Language of St. Luke. By the Rev. W.
K. Hobart, LL.D. (Hodges, Figgie, and Co.)—This elaborate treatise discusses with mach learning and acumen the arguments in favour of the Position that the Gospel according to St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were written by the same person, and that the writer was a medical man. Dr. Hobart cites the usage of medical words in narratives and descriptions which do not deal with subjects con- nected with disease. He shows how the writer of the Gospel of St. Luke and the Acts imported medical language into accounts in which other New-Testament writers did not use it. The references to the works of Hippocrates, Aretaeus, Galen, and Dioscorides are very full. A good index and a critical table of contents add largely to the value of the work, which is, moreover, carefully printed. Dr. Hobart's treatise is published in the Dublin University Press Series.
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