Richard Bentley, ED: a Bibliography. By A. T. Bartholomevi. (Bowes
and Bowes. 7s. 6d. net.)—In this volume is accomplished an interesting task, which one is surprised, as Dr. Clark suggests, to find so long delayed. Dr. Clark sets forth its history. He began, on his election at Trinity, to collect the tracts that con- cerned the great controversy between Bentley and his College. This pollection was extended to Bentley's other works. Dr. Luard was always a sympathetic helper, though he declined to accept Dr. Clark's suggestipn that he should undertake the bibliography. When Dr. Luard died, he left his Bentley library to Dr. Clark, and the latter has now utilised the services of Mr. Bartholomew, who is an assistant in the Cambridge University Library. The bibliography is in nine parts: L-III. are Theological; IV.-V. Classical (the " Phalaris" controversy, items 89-136, and various editions, Horace being the most famous, 90-204). The sixth section concerns Trinity College (205-249); the seventh, "Miscellanea"; the eighth, "Collected Works and Correspond- ence"; and the ninth, "Biography and Criticism." There are various supplemental documents, as a chronology of Bentley's life, and a facsimile of a letter about 1 John v. 7, the "Three Witnesses Text." Bentley's idea was that if St. Jerome in the Vulgate did not include it, he followed the Greek texts of his time—we wonder what the Papal edition will have—" If that age did not know it, then Arianism in its height was beat down, without the help of that verse."
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