Helps to the Study of the Bible (Oxford University Press)
is a most convenient and useful volume. The contents are thus summarised in the title :—" Analytical notes and summaries of the several books ; lists of animals, birds, reptiles, plants, dm, found in Scripture ; tables .of 'weights and measures ; time and money ; words obsolete and ambiguous ; together with a new index to the Bible, a now and com- plete concordance ; a dictionary of Scripture proper names, and a aeries of maps." We may say that the workmanship, wherever we have chanced to examine it, seems to be very good.--Notes on Genesis, by the Rev. W. Keymer, M.A. (T. and T. Clark), is a book
Iriginally intended for Sunday-School teachers, and contains a cam- el analysis of the book of which it treats.—What do I Believe ? by . G. Green, D. D. (Religious Tract Society), is another book of the same class, dealing specially with the larger outlines of theology.—In Prospect of Sunday, by the Rev. G. S. Bowes, B.A. (Nisbet), is de- scribed as "a collection of analyses, arguments, applications, coun- sels, cautions, &o., for the use of preachers and teachers." It is arranged in alphabetical order, and brings together matters having a certain cent:action with each other. Thus, to take an instance, " Hope " is defined ; its " nature)" " characteristics," " efforts," "guards," aro each set forth and illustrated by a collection of pas- sages. Much labour has been expended on this volume, and not un- profitably.—Of continuations of commentaries which have been previously noticed, we have Commentary on the Old Testament, The Apocryphal Rooks, Esdras to Maccabees (S.P.C.K.) ; and the fifth and concluding volume of A Popular Commentary on the New Testament, by D. D. Wheeler, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton), this contains the books from Titus to Revelation.
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