SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have net been reserved for review in other forms.]
"The Expositor's Bible" (Hodder and Stoughton) being now finished in forty-nine volumes, a Complete Index, by the Rev. S. G. Ayres, B.D. (7s. 6d.), has been added, making up the total to fifty. It may be useful to recall the names of some of the contributors : Dean Farrar (1 and 2 Kings, and Daniel), Professor G. A. Smith (Isaiah, and the Minor Prophets), Dr. Maclaren (the Psalms, and Colossians), Professor Marcus Dods (Genesis, the Gospel of John, and 1 Corinthians), Dr. R. A. Watson (Judges and Ruth, and Numbers), Professor W. H. Bennett (1 and 2 Chronicles, and Jeremiah), and Professor Adeney (Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther, and Canticles and Lamentations). These two last- named divines have furnished the volume now before us with admirable introductions to the Old and the New Testament respectively. They both represent a school of sober and suggestive criticism, which it is a deplorable mistake to identify with the destructive speculations of such writers as Schmiedel and Mania. We see that the contributors are fairly equally divided between the Anglican, the English Nonconformist, and the Scottish Presbyterian bodies.
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