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William Tyndale : a Biography. By the Rev. B. Demos, M.A. New Edition, revised by Richard Lovett, M.A. (Religions Tract Society.)—Mr. Demme's work on Tyndale quite deserved the careful editing and revision which it has received from Mr. Lovett. Its subject is one of the greatest interest ; even those who have nothing but hard words for the men who were mixed up in the politics of the Reformation most except from their unfavourable judgment the single-minded scholar who did so much for the English Bible. The work was confessedly well done by Mr. Demaus (about whom, by the way, we should have been glad to hear something ; his name does not occur in the latest edition of "Men of the Reign"). Still, historical research goes on, and something has been discovered bearing on Tyndale's life. Mr. Demaus himself had prepared some notes for a second edition, and of these nee has been made. The chief discovery relates to Tyndale's career at Oxford, and this is due to those laborious researches of Mr. 0. W. Boase (which have borne snob good fruit), in the "Register of the University of Oxford." Tyndale appears in the "Register" under the name of William Hyoleyne (variously spelt Hochyne), and he seems to have gone through all the formalities of disputation and the like which were necessary for the degree of Master of Arta between the years 1512-1515. In May, 1512, be had resided two years and one term at the University. If he went up to the University at the usual age—and Foxe uses the ex- pression "from a childe "—it follows that his birth must be put moth later even than the date at which Mr. Bermes fixed it, in 1494 rather than 1484. If so, he was little morn than forty when he suffered martyrdom.
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