SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading ws notice such Books of the weak as have not been reserved for review in other forms.]
Isaiah i.-xxxix. Edited by the Rev. C. H. Thomson and the Rev. John Skinner. (Cambridge University Press. 1s. 6d. net.) —This belongs to the series of "The Revised Version for the Use of Schools." The third section of the introduction, in which Isaiah's part in the political history of the time is given, is particularly valuable. On vii. 14 the note is ; " virgin, rather `young woman." The passage has a curious parallel in the Polio Eclogue of Virgil. We see that a considerable portion of the "proto-Isaiah" is supposed by the editors to be Exilic and post-Exilic. So xix., The Burden of Egypt," a chapter which it is difficult to apply to the Egypt of the eighth century, is con- jecturally assigned to the sixth century or the fifth ; xxxiii.-xxxix. are also supposed to be of late date. About a third, on the whole, is included in this criticism.
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