'The Epistle of Paul to Philemon, an Exposition for English
Readers. By the Rev. A. H. Drysdale, M.A. (Religious Tract Society.)--This small book contains an introduction—so good, that we imagined it might prove the best part of the book—a translation, and then the exposition itself, which is exhaustive. If this episode in the great Apostle's life had been a "cunningly devised fable," it could not have appealed more than the tale as unfolded in this letter to all that is deepest and best in our human nature. The lapse of centuries has had no power to chill the sympathy with whit+ we regard the aged prisoner, his doubly rescued convert, and that master who is expected to receive his runaway slave "as a brother beloved." Though slavery is dead, selfishness is not, and we trust many will be the bettor for Mr. Drysdale's labour, and grateful to him for it.
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