A COMPANION TO BIBLICAL STUDIES. -r
As the title points out, this new edition of the Cambridge Companion is practically a new work ; and there could be no better measure of the advance made in all departments of Biblical scholarship during the last twenty years than the extensive revision required to bring the book • Oxford Historieal and Literary Studies : Vol. VIII., Political Ballads. Edited by Milton Percival, Ph.D. Oxford : at the Clarendon Press. London: Humphrey Millard. tea. 6d. net.) t A Companion to Biblical Studies : being a Rested and Rewritten Edition of the Cambridge Companion to the .Cibler. Cambridge: at the University rreas. [15s. net]. up to the level of modern knowledge. Many of the writers in the old book happily survive and have revised their own contributions ; others have passed away, and their essays have been dealt with by the editor, Professor Emery Barnes. In only one case has his courage failed him :, he felt that Bishop 1Vestcott's article on "Sacred Books of Other Faiths " could be adapted to modern days by no hand less skilful than that of the original writer. Among new articles there are introductions to St. John's Gospel and the Epistles of St. Paul by Dr. Brooke of King's and Mr. Valentine Richards of Christ's College, and one on the Revelation by the venerable Professor Swote. To students of the Bible who cannot. afford Bible Dictionaries and the larger Commentaries this Companion may be recommended ; they will find much learning conveyed in simple language ; and the differences between the view taken by this and that writer as to the date and authorship of certain books of the Bible, which the editor has wisely left, may help them to exercise their own judgment in such questions, or at least convince thorn that they are not matters of faith.
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