SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[u.a., this heading we notice such ItosAs of the week as have not bees reserved for review in other forms.] In the "Century Bible" (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 28. net) we have St. Mark, edited by S. D. F. Salmond, D.D. Principal Salmond observes that "one of the most notable facts in the history of New Testament studies in our own day" is that the true character of St. Mark has at last been adequately recognised. Even Augustine, as he reminds us, did not regard him as more than "a follower and abbreviator of St. Matthew." Nothing could be a more conclusive proof of the necessity of keeping patristic authority in its right place. What, too, could be more signifi- cant than that it took some eighteen centuries to discover what now seems an obvious fact in New Testament criticism ? The plan of the series is to give the Authorised Version first as it stands, then the Revised Version, accompanying the latter with annotations. These annotations seem, as far as we have examined them, to be judicious and to the point.
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