The Life and Letters of St. Paul. By Professor David
Smith, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton. 21s.)—This handsome volume —the three maps are of exceptional excellence—falls under the head of Predicabilia. The content is various; the style discursive ; the literature of the subject, though the writer does not go beyond it, has been carefully read. The Apostle has provided material for many discourses ; and the preacher who studies these 704 pages will be well equipped for his task. Dr. Smith is not without a certain dry humour. Describing St. _Paul's discourse at Trees during which Eutychus, wearied by its length, fell asleep and was " precipitated to the ground," he quotes Bengel " Spiritual teachers ought not to be too strictly bound by the clock, especi- ally on a solemn and rare occasion." And, in connexion with the Corinthian Glossolalia, we find an interesting account of the Speaking with Tongues at the Gareloch in 1830. These phenomena were associated with the Irvingite movement ; and were taken seriously, though not uncritically, by so wise a man as Times Erskine of Linlathen.
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