25 MARCH 1865, Page 21

The Jewish Temple and the Christian Church. By R. W.

Dale. (Jack-

son, Watford, and Hodder.)—A series of sermons on the Epistle to the Hebrews, addressed to a Nonconformist congregation, and written in an orthodox but liberal spirit. For instance, Mr. Dale concedes that there is no sufficient evidence, external or internal, for attributing the author- ship to St. Paul, or indeed to any one. He does not, however, allow that the internal evidence is sufficient to show that it is not the work of the author of the other Pauline Epistles, or in other words, not St. Paul's. Yet he rejects the theory which alone, we think, would make it even possible—the theory which supposes the Epistle to have been written in Hebrew by the Apostle and translated by another hand. The style of the book is very good.