We welcome the appearance of a new " Church Monthly
Magazine," entitled The Interpreter (Brown, Longhorn, and Co., 6d. net). It is to be, we imagine, the organ of liberal orthodoxy in the Anglican Church. Such, in general, is the bearing of Canon Driver's seasonable article on " The Permanent Religious Value of the Old Testament," and such, in particular, the spirit of Canon Kennett's paper on "Our Lord's Reference to Jonah." It is a pertinent remark that the predictions of Christ as to His death were purposely indefinite. It would have been out of harmony with His method to define in any but the most general way the duration of His sojourn in Hades. This, too, is quite in keeping with the allegorical character of the story referred to. The other articles we have not space to notice. They are " The Value of the New Sayings of Jesus,'" by Walter Lock, D.D. ; "Assyriology and Inspiration," by the Rev. C. H. W. Johns ; "Miracles : I. Their Possibility," by Richard Brook, B.A. ; and "England's Housing Question : I. The Past," by the Rev. Henry Lewis. The Interpreter's headquarters are, we see, in a provincial town. We should be glad to see some diminution of the congestion in London.
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