15 JANUARY 1887, Page 20

St. Paul the Author of the Last Twelve Verses of

the Second Gospel. By Howard Heber Evans, B.A. (Nisbet.)—Mr. Evans is the ingenious author who finds the authorship of St. Paul in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Third Gospel. He now goes a step further, and attributes to the same hand the doubtful addition to the last chapter of St. Mark. We sincerely trust that he is going to stop here. We cannot help thinking that Biblical criticism is not at all advantaged by the sort of argument which is used in a treatise of this kind. Secular books are not exposed to this kind of treatment, and we are sorry that Mr. Evans does not put his learned leisure to a better use.