The Prophet Isaiah, Chapters i.-xxxiii. From the German of H.
Ewald, by 0. Glove; B.D. (Deighton and Bell ; Bell anti Daldy.)—We are often inclined, it must be confessed, to wish, with Dean Milman, that we had an Ewald to criticize Ewald. There is something peculiarly audacious in his criticism, not so much in his exegesis, perhaps, as in his essays at construction. Readers who are not accustomed to the con- fidence of insight which may be said to characterize German scholarship will be surprised at the way in which the commonly accepted order of Isaiah'a prophecies is pulled to pieces and reconstructed. But the critic, even if he pushes freedom to the verge of daring, is never wanting in reverence or appreciative feeling. Whatever value we may be inclined to attach to this or that opinion which he advances, we cannot fail to recognize the value of the contribution which he brings to Biblical science. This little volume will be a very useful introduction to a more searching and scientific inquiry into the meaning of the utterances of Isaiah than any English commentary which we are acquainted with is likely to give to the student. Let any one who has been used to read his Bible in the ordinary fashion take it up with this book at hand, and read it according to the arrangement which it suggests, and with the
that it throws upon the history and politics of the time, and he will see not a little that is new to him.
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