The Cartoons of 8i. Mark. By Robert P. Horton. (J.
Clarke and Co.)—The word "Cartoon" in the title of this volume is an expression, not very happy, we venture to think, of the picturesque character of St. Mark's Gospel, picturesque, because not one of the Four deals so much in detail. We say that it is not very happy because it may give an impression of designed effect quite remote from anything that can be attributed to the Evangelist, as Mr. Horton himself would be the first to assert. The writer's plan has been to take incidents and discourses related by St. Mark, and group them together ; and he has carried it out in a very effective way. Mr. Horton treats his subject with an admirable combination of freedom and reverence. He frequently turns from it to deal in a pointed manner with some critical question of the day,—as, e.g., that of divorce (pp. 130-7).
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