CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Church Quarterly Review, October. (Spottiswoode.)—This is a number of more than usually varied interest. The articles are ten in number, of which the moat important, perhaps, are the eighth, "Sanctuary and Sacrifice," a well considered reply to the destructive criticism of Wellhausen, and " The Text of the Gospels," a defence of the Westeott-Hort theory of the text against the attack of Dean Burgon and Mr. Miller. The writer does not accept the revised text en bloc, but he shows pretty clearly that the adverse argument which Mr. Miller has elabo-
rated out of the materials collected by Dr. Burgon, with additions of his own, is not by any means conclusive. The review of Mr. Ottley's " Doctrine of the Incarnation" is noteworthy. To enter into the argument would be impossible on the present occasion, but we cannot but feel that the writer in attacking Mr. Ottley, and with him Canon Gore, is dangerously near to heresy. "The divine knowledge which he possessed was undiminished." If these words are to be taken in their full force the limitation of know- ledge, which is surely essential to humanity, did not exist.
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