16 MARCH 1889, Page 23

St. John the Author of the Fourth Gospel. By Howard

Heber Evans, B.A. (Nisbet and Co.)—We have not been able hitherto to agree with the speculations of Mr. Evans about the authorship of New Testament books. They seemed to us, to speak plainly, a little, and even more than a little, paradoxical. Now he marshals his arguments in defence of a position which is generally taken by orthodox critics. He chiefly relies on the resemblances between the Apocalypse and the Gospel. St. John was admittedly the author of the first, and Mr. Evans maintains, in view of these resemblances, that he is the "only possible author of the Fourth Gospel."