patience to do it-for patience will be required, since it will not be exciting work? We have apprehensions. But we were reviewing the book, not its readers, or those who ought to be such, We unhesitatingly pronounce it a painstaking, scholarly, and valuable aid to the understanding of the ideas and truths of the books of which it treats.

CADMAN'S

GEORGE B. STEVENS.

CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS."*-This book presents the entire Biblical material bearing on the life of Christ, in the very words of the New Testament. This it does by following the writer whose narrative is fullest in any given portion, indicating variations from his narrative by placing them in brackets in small type. Thus the body of the text presents the fullest account obtainable from the gospels, while the variations of expression and detail are easily noted by reference to the bracketed portions. By means of small figures, 1, 2, 3, etc., the compiler indicates in each passage or fragment of a passage which author he is here following-whether the first, second, third, or fourth gospel. In questions of chronology and harmony, Mr. Cadman has followed the best authorities without introducing discussion or notes on the subject. The full index and the highly interesting map representing the journeys of Jesus, with the key for its use, are features of the book of much interest and value.

It would be a highly useful book for any person who wished to study the life and teaching of our Lord in order, as it places before the student in compact form the full material for his study, which he could collect and adjust for himself only by laborious and often discouraging comparison of passages. We esteem it a highly interesting and useful book; interesting as showing how well the total material of the gospels can be combined into a continuous history, and useful as saving the student the perplexing preparatory work of harmonizing and adjusting the separate narratives—a labor which few Biblical readers have the patience or skill to carry through.

GEORGE B. STEVENS.

*Or, Life of Our Lord in the Words of the Evangelists. American Revision, 1881, with self-interpreting Scripture, map of Jesus' travels, and a Dictionary of proper names, by JAMES P. CADMAN, A.M., with an introduction by Rev. P. S. HENSON, D.D. Sixth edition. Chicago: Amer. Pub. Soc. of Hebrew. 1886. pp. 1-380.

THE EARLY TUDORS.*-The useful series, "Epochs of Modern History," including this last addition now offers a fairly complete presentation of the History of England, from the conquest to the middle of the last century. Mr. Moberly's work is a careful compilation from the best writers upon the period under consideration. His range of view is wide, taking in the social, literary, and industrial features of the period. His style is straightforward, and sometimes vivacious. The account of the Renaissance is intelligent, and the expansive and stimulating effect of the discoveries of antiquity and the New World upon men's minds is properly appreciated. On page 242 the Utopia is spoken of as if written in English, though the facts are correctly stated elsewhere. In the preface, Ranke's "History of the Reformation in Germany " is said to have been translated by Miss Austen. It should be Mrs. Austin.

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WARREN'S BOOK OF REVELATION.t-In this volume we have an attempt at a popular exposition of the Apocalypse. Dr. Warren regards it as a series of "pictorial writings," for the interpretation of which one must have the "key." This he finds in the "Ev Taxεi" of the first verse, "Things which must shortly come to pass." The Apocalypse having been written about A. D. 68, we find the speedy fulfillment of some of its prophecies in the destruction of Jerusalem and the woes that befell the Jews; all of which were symbolically foretold in the first eleven chapters. The Parousia, following the "seventh trumpet," was the second coming of our Lord, for the establishment of his new kingdom, the beginning of the judgment of the dead, and the access of all mankind to God, through the mediation of Christ.

In the part beginning with Chapter xii., Dr. Warren finds imagery which symbolizes important events that were to follow in secular and ecclesiastical history to the end of time. For instance, the beast coming up from the sea, is the Roman Imperator (Emperor), and the "second beast" is the Pontifex Maximus (Chief Priest). The Scarlet Woman is Rome. The thousand years of the martyr's reign begins with the Conversion of Constantine and ends with the rise of the Ottoman power-the

The Early Tudors: Henry VII., Henry VIII. By the Rev. C. E. MOBERLY, M.A., late a master in Rugby School. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. The Book of Revelation; by ISRAEL P. WARREN, D.D.

"Gog and Magog" of Chapter xx. The entire exposition, which Dr. Warren has given, is mainly like that of Professor Stuart, and is well worthy of careful study.

M. G. BULLOCK.

HANDBOOK TO THE REVELATION OF JOHN.*--This volume is one of the most valuable of the "Meyers Commentary" series, published by Funk & Wagnalls. Good expositions of the "Revelation" are not so abundant that Bible students will not be glad to own this volume. Dr. Düsterdieck's well-known exegetical skill will commend the work, whatever one may think as to certain of his ideas concerning the Apocalypse. For example, Dr. Düsterdeick rejects its commonly accepted Johannean Apostolic authorship, though he gives it a "deutero-canonical" authority, which he thinks is proven by its true prophetic character. He attributes to the book an ethical rather than a magical inspiration. It is highly poetic and its poesy stands in the same relation to the subject of the prophecy, as the rhetoric of Paul, or the Apostle John, to the contents of their messages.

The time of its composition was previous to the destruction of Jerusalem, and its author one John--not the Apostle-residing probably at Ephesus. There is embraced in the vision of the seer the anti-Christian Judaism, and the-if possible-more antiChristian heathenism, realized and symbolized in the Holy Cityfull of iniquities and Rome drunk with the blood of martyrs. Jerusalem is to be destroyed, her glory trodden under foot; Rome, the great Harlot, must be judged; Satan and the demoniacal powers be overthrown, and at the "Parousia," the dead will be raised and judged, and death and hell be cast into the lake of fire. Dr. Düsterdieck evidently does not find our modern rabbinical millenarianism in the Apocalypse, for he holds that it is "incorrect to directly refer the particular visions of seals, trumpets, and vials, to particular events in secular, ecclesiastical or governmental history, but regards the entire course of temporal things as tending according to God's order to an eternal fulfillment."

M. G. BULLOCK.

* Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Revelation of John; by FREDERICK DÜSTERDIECK, D.D. Translated and edited by Henry E. Jacobs, D.D.

THE ART AMATEUR for June begins the seventeenth volume with a new cover. It contains many attractive illustrations. Three figure and drapery studies in two colors, a full-page portrait and a number of pen drawings accompany a biographical account of Sir Frederick Leighton, President of the British Royal Academy. There is a notice of the Paris Salon, with an admirable two-page drawing of Ridgway Knight's picture, "In October," together with reviews of the American Artists' and Prize Fund Exhibitions and the new Seney Collection; also an amusing French account of the Morgan sale, and a timely article on composite photographs. There is a suggestive "talk" with John La Farge on the re-decoration of the American "meeting house."

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