SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as haw not been vssorrosti for review in other Arms.] The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, LL.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.)—Perhaps the most important article in this volume is Professor Denney's " Harnack and Loisy on the Essence of Christianity." It goes to the root of two great controversies which may be briefly characterised as "Rome" and "Rationalism." Abbe Loisy is separately discussed by Professor Briggs. This also is a notable essay. It is becoming more and more evident that the dividing line of the future will be, not Rome v. Protestantism, but Tradition against Criticism. Rome will ultimately assimilate all the reactionary forces. Viewed from this point of view, Professor W. M. Ramsay's paper on "The Worship of the Virgin Mary at Ephesus" becomes doubly significant. The Virgin was the successor of Artemis, just as "Our Lady of the Fever" was the successor of the Goddess Mefitis, whose temple stood, as Tacitus tells us, outside the gates of Cremona.
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