CURRENT LITERATURE.
General Epistle of St. .Tames. Edited, with Notes and Introduc- tion, by the Rev. Arthur Carr. (Cambridge University Press.)— Mr. Carr, favourably known to Biblical scholars by some excellent work, as, e.g., his "Notes on St. Luke's Gospel," has contributed a useful edition of St. James to the" Cambridge Bible for Schools." In his introduction Mr. Carr favours the theory that the author was the Lord's half-brother. He suggests an interesting parallel between our Lord, who would thus be the youngest in the family and David ; and later on points out the significance of the names of the four brothers as representative of Messianic thought. He argues for the early date of the Epistle, a consideration important in many ways, and especially in view of the declaration about faith and works.
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