EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS. With Introduction and Notes, by JAMES S. CANDLISH. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1895. 60 cents.

A brief and convenient, as well as a profound, interpretation of this important book.

THE EGYPT OF THE HEBREWS AND HERODOTOS. By the Rev. A. H. SAYCE, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford. Pp. xvi, 342. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1895. $2.00.

In preparing this volume the eminent author has rendered an invaluable service to the general public in sifting out the wheat from the chaff, and placing in relative prominence the most significant discoveries, with their real bearing upon biblical history. His account of the Tel el-Amarna letters sheds a flood of light upon the age of Moses. The Exodus is placed by Mr. Sayce between Ramses II. and Ramses III., the latter of whom began to reign about B. C. 1230. Between these two rulers there were three brief reigns-namely, Meneptah, Seti II., and Si-Ptah. An inscription copied at Wadi Halfa two years ago by Mr. Sayce shows that in Si-Ptah's time intercourse with Syria was still maintained by Egypt. This with other indications points in Sayce's opinion to that reign as the one during which the Exodus took place. But the volume is so full of interesting information that we forbear further attempts at summarizing it. Six elaborate appendices add greatly to the value of the book.

THE AGE OF HILDEBRAND (Ten Epochs of Church History). By MARVIN R. VINCENT, D. D. Pp. xxii, 457. New York: The Christian Literature Co. $1.50.

Professor Vincent very naturally found it difficult to compress the material of this age into the limits originally designed for the Series, and so has written a volume of nearly twice the size of the others, making it necessary to increase the price also. In studying the later history one meets everywhere with the influences set in motion during the formative period of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. No better preparation for the study of the Reformation can be made than would be furnished by perusal of the present volume, which amply sustains the high reputation of the Series, and is every way worthy of commendation.

OUTLINES OF CHURCH HISTORY. BY RUDOLF SOHM, Professor of Law, Leipzig. Translated by Miss May Sinclair. With a Preface by Professor H. M. Gwatkin, M. A. Pp. xii, 254. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1895. $I.IO.

The brilliant style, accurate learning, comprehensive philosophy, and deep appreciation of religious life displayed by the author in this volume render it unsurpassed among all the efforts which have been made to compress church history into such limited space.

LECTURES ON THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, delivered at Oxford 1892-93. By JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, late Regius Professor of Modern History. Pp. 294. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1896. $2.00. This volume consists of lectures which had not been revised by the author for publication, and so are without the literary references which characterized the two preceding volumes of the Series, which were devoted to Erasmus and the English Seamen of the Sixteenth Century; but they are none the less interesting reading, and bring out in the best manner the excellences of the author's style, both of thought and treat

ment.

EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. By the Reverend J. A. ZAHM, Ph. D., C. S. C., Professor of Physics in the University of Notre Dame, author of "Sound and Music," "Bible, Science and Faith," "Catholic Science and Catholic Scientists." Pp. xxx, 449. Chicago: D. H. McBride & Co. 1896.

Dr. Zahm is one of the best representatives, among both Protestants and Catholics, of eminent scientific authorities who positively advocate a discernible harmony between the teachings of modern science and the references of the Bible to the phenomena of nature. He is a theistic evolutionist, after about the style of the late Professor Asa Gray. He writes with full understanding of the problems both of science and religion, and furnishes a work which will be equally acceptable to Protestants and Catholics. The book is valuable for keeping steadily before the reader's mind, that opposition to science has not proceeded from the Bible as such, or from the true church authorities, but from certain selfconstituted interpreters of divine revelation.

THE PROPHESYING OF WOMEN: A Popular and Practical Exposition of the Bible Doctrine. By Rev. G. F. WILKIN. Pp. 348. Chicago, New York, and Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Co. 1895. $1.50. The proposition maintained by the author of this volume to harmonize the apparently conflicting statements of the New Testament concerning the silence of women in the churches is, that prophesying is the addressing of promiscuous assemblies, and not of regular church meetings. The largest liberty, he believes, is granted in the New Testament to women to "prophesy"; for in ordinary assemblies the audience is not in subjection to the speaker, but the speaker to the audience. In church meetings, however, the speaker is in a position of authority, and not of subjection, and should in all cases be a man. The discussion is thorough and scholarly, and merits wide attention.

THE FAST AND THANKSGIVING DAYS OF NEW ENGLAND. By W. DELOSS LOVE, Jr., Ph. D. Pp. 606. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1895. $2.50.

This volume is an religion was their life. sorrows and successes. ing value.

interesting study in the history of a people whose Here are reflected their hopes and fears, their The book is ably and finely written, and of last

HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL. Period of Jewish Independence and Judæa under Roman Rule. By ERNEST RENAN, author of the "Life of Jesus," "The Future of Science," etc. With full index to the five Volumes. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1895. $2.50.

Renan's brilliant style, depth of feeling, and delicacy of sentiment make his works attractive, however much one may differ from his posi tions. The present series is one of the most valuable of his works, and is the one in which his real learning is best displayed. This volume is about the last literary work of his life, having been finished in October, 1891.

HEREDITY AND CHRISTIAN PROBLEMS. BY AMORY H. BRADFORD. New York: Macmillan & Co. 1895. $1.50.

In this volume are condensed the results of many years' labor and thought upon the most perplexing problems of society by a successful pastor and a capable writer. The author's experience gives him great advantage over the mere theorist who writes from a professor's chair with little direct contact with the world itself. The discussions will be found very useful to all.

IF JESUS CAME TO BOSTON. By EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Pp. 45. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co. 50 cents.

Dr. Hale's essay is a charming one, and a healthful antidote to the extreme and pessimistic statements of Mr. Stead's book on Chicago. Boston is not opposed to Chicago, but the good that is done "in His name" in every modern Christian city which would gladden the heart of Christ, is beautifully and pleasantly set forth.

OLD FAITHS AND NEW FACTS. BY WILLIAM W. KINSLEY, author of "Views on Vexed Questions." Pp. 345. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1896.

The readers of the BIBLIOTHECA SACRA are familiar with Mr. Kinsley's writings, about half of the present work having appeared in its pages. So valuable were the essays on "Science and Prayer," which appeared in our pages, that they were reissued as a text-book for the Chautauqua circles and widely distributed. In addition to these brilliant essays, the present volume contains about an equal amount upon "Science and Christ," and another part on "Science and the Life Beyond." The book will be found interesting to the general reading public, as well as stimulating to professional students of theology.

THE PREACHER AND HIS PLACE. By Rev. DAVID H. GREER. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1895. $1.25.

The Lyman Beecher Lectureship is providing a homiletical library in itself. The present volume seems well up to the standard set by its predecessor.

CHRIST'S TRUMPET-CALL TO THE MINISTRY; or, The Preacher and the Preaching for the Present Crisis. By DANIEL S. GREGORY, D. D., I.L. D., author of "Christian Ethics," "Why Four Gospels?" editor of the Homiletic Review, late managing editor of "The Standard Dictionary," etc. Pp. 365. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co. 1896.

This volume of Dr. Gregory gathers into one appeal the thought and wisdom of a rarely gifted scholar, whose experience and deep reflection give his words the very greatest weight. The book is written in clear and forcible style, and the topics are arranged in such logical order that it may well serve as a text-book in homiletics as well as a hand-book for the regular pastor. We have read it through with unflagging interest.

THE STREET GENEALOGY. Compilation begun by HENRY A. STREET, New Haven, Conn. Completed, edited, and published by Mrs. MARY A. STREET, Corresponding Secretary of the Street Association, Exeter, N. H. Pp. viii, 542.

Mrs. Street's volume completing the genealogy of her husband's family is one of the most creditable and important of that kind which have appeared. The multiplication of such works tends greatly to increase respect for our New England ancestry, and gives us a fresh appreciation of the encouragement which patriotic sentiment among the Jews received from such genealogical tables as appear in the book of Chronicles.

HERALDRY IN AMERICA. By EUGENE ZIEBER. With over nine hundred illustrations. Pp. 427. Philadelphia: The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co. 1895. $10.

This book is an effort to set forth, in popular form, the essentials of its subject. Its opening chapters relate to the origin and development of heraldry, and the remainder of the book is occupied with a treatise on heraldry in this country as applied to the arts, as used by colonial families, and as now in use on American coins, state coats-of-arms, and patriotic societies. Several chapters on the elements of heraldry, with numerous illustrations, complete the work, which is most attractively gotten up. It is very readable, and is fully indexed, and will serve well either for continuous reading or for reference.

DICTIONARY OF UNITED STATES HISTORY. 1492-1894. By J. FRANKLIN JAMESON, Ph. D., Professor of History in Brown University. Illustrated with nearly three hundred Portraits. Pp. 733. Boston: Puritan Publishing Co.

A new subscription book, with alphabetical arrangement, and containing a very good compilation for popular use. We notice a few places where the information is not brought down to date, as in the article "Congregationalists," in which undue prominence is given to the Burial Hill declaration, and no notice is taken of the Creed of 1883. But for the most part the work is well done, and the book will prove useful in many homes.

THE GREEK TENSES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: their Bearing upon its accurate Interpretation. With a Rendering of the Gospels and Notes. By the Rev. P. THOMPSON, B. D., Minister of Dunning. Pp. vii, 317. Edinburgh: J. Gardner Hitt. 1895.

The author devotes four pages to a discussion of the origin and characteristics of New Testament Greek, eighteen pages to the force of the tenses, and the remainder of the book to a translation of the four Gospels, designed to illustrate the principles stated in the preceding discussion of the tenses.

The treatment of the tenses in only eighteen pages is necessarily confined to general statements, and they include some inaccuracies. The underlying idea of the aorist is said to be that of “momentary occurrence." The aorist participle when combined with a finite verb is said often to express "two quite contemporary actions." The author evidently means that the action expressed by the participle is identical with that of the finite verb, the participle simply presenting some special phase of that action, for he gives as an illustration of these "two quite contemporary actions," the expression, dπoкpidèis čirev, in which, as he proceeds to say, "both participle and verb denote the same action" (p. 31). His translation of the Gospels contains frequent circumlocutions intended to bring out the exact force of the tenses in the original. Some of them are awkward, but the author hopes that the gain in “precision and clearness of sense" is compensation. The book will be interesting and suggestive to those who appreciate the importance of carefully studying the moods and tenses of the Greek Testament.

E. I. B. THE REVISERS' GREEK TEXT. A Critical Examination of certain Readings, Textual and Marginal, in the Original Greek of the New Testament, adopted by the late Anglo-American Revisers. In two volumes. Pp. 361, 350. Boston: Silver, Burdett & Co. 1892.

These volumes, now some time before the public, are a protest against the principles employed in determining the Greek text of which the Revised Version is a translation. According to the author, the revisers did not give sufficient attention to the necessity of making exceptions to the canons ordinarily followed in text-making. For example, the canon that the more difficult reading is preferable to the easier, seems to him to have been carried so far as to mean that "the more difficult a reading is, the more likely it is to be true." His chief objection, however, is to the great importance attached by the revisers, under the leadership of Dr. Hort, to the Vatican and Sinaitic manuscripts. The fact that they are the oldest manuscripts militates rather against, than for, their purity. "The worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within a hundred years after it was composed."

After a brief introduction of thirty-nine pages, in which the author states these objections, he takes up some seven hundred instances in which the text of the revisers differs from the Receptus. His general