32m0 and foolscap 8vo respectively. The first, or smaller of these two editions, is an exquisite specimen of what the University Press can effect in combining at once smallness, blackness, and clearness of type. The book is embellished with border lines and initials in red, and is to be had in various bindings. In the larger edition, which is also richly ornamented with woodcuts of initials and of headpieces, &c., the ink seems to us rather pale. How long will printers go on perpetuating the error of one of their predecessors by prefixing Deus laudum to Psalm cix.?
The appearance of a fourth edition of The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, by Alfred Edersheim, M.A. Oxon., D.D., Ph.D. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1887), bears out the encomiums which we passed on this remarkable work when it first appeared, only four years ago. We are glad to find in the Preface intimation of a design to embody further results of reading and study' in prosecution of the work here completed. We are sorry that Dr. Edersheim has not seen cause to modify his lax view-if he will allow us to call it so respecting the 'brothers' of our Lord. In the little volume of Addresses, &c., noticed above, p. 505, Dr. Bright lets drop the pregnant remark that the words from the Cross, 'Woman, behold thy son,' ought themselves to be sufficient to dispose of the Helvidian theory. Dr. Edersheim has evidently felt the difficulty, but to our mind he disposes of it very lamely (vol. ii. p. 602 n.). We have further to congratulate Dr. Edersheim on the completion, by the publication of the seventh volume, of his valuable and laborious work, The Bible History (London: Religious Tract Society, 1887), commenced more than ten years ago. The object of the undertaking was to make a fresh study of Old Testament History (from the Creation to Zedekiah) 'from the original text, with such help as was to be derived from the best criticism and from cognate sciences.' In this last volume in particular the results of Asyriological studies have been incorporated. Dr. Edersheim is not one of those who consider, as too many do, that Old Testament history is of comparatively small importance to the Christian. 'Without it the New Testament would want its historical basis, and the historical Christ offer what would seem an absolutely unintelligible problem.' In presence of the current views of Kuenen and Wellhausen as to the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch legislation, it is refreshing to read from the pen of a Hebrew scholar who is more than their match :-' The present writer has not seen any reason for departing from the old lines of the Church's faith, but rather everything to confirm our adherence to them' (Pref. p. 5). We warmly recommend these volumes to the classes whom the writer had primarily in view, viz., 'those who teach and those who learn, whether in the school or in the family.' We regret to find that the Index to the entire work, at the end of this seventh volume, does not extend to the 'Notes,' which are both numerous and of the highest value.
The two latest numbers of the English Historical Review, Nos. 7 and 8, July and October 1887 (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1887), amply sustain the reputation of that learned and scholarly
publication, to which we heartily wish 'a happy New Year, and many of them,' as the phrase goes at this season. The names of Bryce, Gardiner, Freeman, and of that highly accomplished traveller, scholar, and archæologist, Mr. Theodore Bent, are a sufficient guarantee for the quality of the 'Articles.' Among the 'Notes and Documents' we single out, as of special interest, ‘Spanheim's Account of the English Court,' recently discovered at Berlin and hitherto unedited. While of the 'Reviews of Books' it may be sufficient to mention that one is by Mr. Freeman and two by Lord Acton, who, as usual with him, shows that he knows infinitely more of the subject than the authors of the books reviewed. These two reviews, on Creighton's Papacy and on two biographies of Napoleon I., deserve and will repay careful study.
The January number of the London Diocesan Magazine (London : Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh, 1888) exceeds in interest any that has previously appeared. The gem of the number is a paper by that learned liturgiologist, Mr. Wickham Legg, F.S.A., 'On some Ancient Liturgical Customs now falling into Disuse,' with five beautiful illustrations from ancient service-books. Most cordially do we endorse the words (p. 261), 'It is a scandal to see some boy . serving the most sacred mysteries of the Christian religion, while men in Holy Orders loll in the choir, or are too lazy to come into church except just in time to distribute the Holy Communion to the faithful who are present. Or take the following: One of the greatest liturgical misfortunes that have befallen the Church of England since the days of Queen Elizabeth has been the passing of the Act which allows shortened services.' We might go on to speak of Mr. Legg's most righteous indignation at the practice adopted in some quarters of sitting at the Psalms! We sincerely hope that Mr. Legg may write more such papers, and that they may find their way into the London Diocesan Magazine for the instruction of silly, half-educated curates, who fasten upon some contemptible foreign piece of 'ritual ’ (so called !) without a single good reason for its adoption.
In a handsome royal octavo volume Mr. Joseph Foster (a name well known to genealogists) has published the Matriculation Register of the University of Oxford, which he has alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated. It is entitled, Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their Parentage, Birthplace, and Year of Birth, with a Record of their Degrees (London: Joseph Foster, 21 Boundary Road, N.W., 1887). The first volume only is now before us. Mr. Foster does not say why he begins so late as 1715, seeing that the Matriculation Registers commence as far back as 1564.
Those who have coveted the possession of Dr. Geikie's Life and Words of Christ and of Mr. Hodder's Life of Lord Shaftesbury will be glad to know that they have recently been reissued in a cheaper and more compact form. 1. The Life and Words of Christ, by Cunningham Geikie, D.D. (London: Cassell and Co, 1887). 2. Life and Works of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., by Edwin Hodder (same publishers).
INDEX TO
TO VOL.
VOL. XXV.
CARR, Rev. A., The Church and
the Roman Empire, 217
Chase, Mr. F. H., Chrysostom: a
Study in the History of Biblical
Interpretation, 223
Christian Philosophers, the first
(Dr. Bigg's Bampton Lectures),
318 sqq.; relations of the world
and the Church at the period
treated of, 319; general estimate
of the lectures, 320; Dr. Bigg's
treatment of the Alexandrine
Presbyterate, 321; free will and
grace, 322; the heresies ascribed
to Origen and Clement, 323;
Christian Platonism, ib.; Philo's
conception of God, 324; the
meanings of πνεῦμα and νοῦς, 325 ;
whence the Logos of St. John
is derived, 326; the 'Platonic
Trinity,' 327; metaphysical con-
ceptions of God, 328; difficulties
of an à priori deduction of the
Trinitarian idea, 329; near ap-
proaches to Pantheism, 330;
strong Platonic prejudice against
matter, 331; Alexandrine doc-
trines of freedom and grace, 332;
Origen's view of grace, 333; St.
Augustine's view compared with
the Alexandrine, 333 sq.; the
sacramental theory of the Alex-
andrines, 335; Origen's view of
Allegorism, 336; what the Alex-
andrine thinkers can teach us,
337
Codex Amiatinus, the, when and
where written, 435 sqq.; the life
of Abbat Ceolfrid, 436 sq.; foun-
dation of Wearmouth Abbey, 438;
Ceolfrid's visits to Rome, 439;
is appointed to the charge of St.
Peter's, Jarrow, ib.; the monas-
tery desolated by pestilence, 440;
the Venerable Bede there as a
child, ib.; Pandects' in the
Jarrow library, 441; meaning of
the word, ib.; description of the
Codex Amiatinus, ib.; the in-
scription on its first leaf, 442;
the attempts made to interpret it,
442 sq.; the solution found in the
anonymous Life of Ceolfrid, 443;
correct reading of the inscription,
444; the MS. was the Pandect
intended by Abbat Ceolfrid as a
gift to St. Peter, 445; relation-
ship between it and the three
Latin Bibles described by Cassio-
dorus, 445 sq.; Dr. Hort's account
of the MS., 447
Cook, Rev. J., Vital Orthodoxy, 231
Culture of the Horrible, the (criti-
cism of Mr. Haggard's stories),
389 sqq.: the craving for intellec-
tual indolence, 389; popularity of
Mr. Haggard's novels, 390; his
singularly limited stock in trade,
391; lack of self-restraint, 392 ;
invariable stage properties, ib.;
The Witch's Head, 393; it illus-
trates Mr. Haggard's love of the
horrible, 394 sq.; his imaginative
power shown in other stories, 396;
tendency to exaggeration, 397;
examples thereof, 398; excellen-
cies neutralized by lack of simpli-
city, 399; incongruities and absur-
dities, 400; his books are satu-
rated with horrors, 401 ; profanity,
402; loathsome details in She,
402 sqq.; savage enormities in
other tales, 405; the exceptional
character of Umslopogaas, 406;
specimens of Mr. Haggard's hu-
mour and taste, 407 sq.; the better
qualities shown in Jess, 408 sq.;
Mr. Haggard's method of dealing
with the most serious questions,
410 sq.
DALE, Dr. R. W., The Epistle to
the Ephesians: its Doctrine
and Ethics, 228
Deacons and secular employments,
286 sqq.; the idea of the 'revival'
of the diaconate first started by
Dr. Arnold, 286; the case of re-
ceiving deacon's orders without
intending to proceed to the pres-
byterate, 287; the story of the
'Arnoldian' scheme, 288 sqq.; in
the Upper House of Convocation
(1884), 289; in recent Diocesan
Conferences, 290; Mr. Sydney
Gedge's bill, and his motion in
the House of Laymen, 291; Re-
port of Convocation Committee,
292; opinions of various bishops,
293; Mr. Twells's resolution in
the Lower House, 294; results
that would follow if Mr. Gedge's
bill were carried, 295; why St. Paul
worked at his trade, 296; the al-
leged 'impossibility of providing
endowments' for the 'required'
increase in the ministry, 297; the
position of deacons in the early
Church: testimony of St. Ignatius,
298 sq.; their numbers in different
places, 300; Dr. Arnold's view,
that the deacon is half a lay-
man,' refuted, 301; the canons of
the 'Fourth Council of Carthage,'
302; the meaning of the term
'clerici,' and of the laws exacting
the 'traders' tax' from them, 303
sq.; secular cares' were forbid-
den to bishops, presbyters, and
deacons by the Apostolic' ca-
nons, 305; testimony of St. Cy-
prian, ib.; the third canon of
Chalcedon, 306; testimonies ad-
duced by Bingham, 306 sq. ; ‘in
every precedent the trade was
supplementary to the orders,' 308;
the proposed scheme just reverses
this, 309; what Dr. Arnold meant
by ‘bursting Antichrist asunder,'
310; to make the diaconate 'lay-
clerical' would tend to degrade
the presbyterate also, 311; un-
desirable effects, too, upon ordi-
nary candidates for orders, 312;
opinion of the late Lord Hather-
ley, 313; the habits proper to
secular callings are not apt for
generating the clerical spirit,
314 sq.; local inconveniences from
'professional deacons,' 316; the
work suggested to be done by
these is within the competency
of laymen, 317
Desjardins, M. A., Les Sentiments
Moraux au Seizième Siècle, 236
Divina Commedia, the, Mr. Hasel-
foot's and Dean Plumptre's trans-
lations of, 412 sqq.; the influence
of the recognition of perfection,
413; the success' that is ac-
corded to translations of poetic
masterpieces, 414; is a perfect
translation a possibility? 415;
poetic creation and recreation,
416; the 'form' of a poem, 417;
its translated form, 418; Dean
Plumptre's translation: its feeble
diffusiveness, 419; glaring mis-
takes of meaning, 420 sq.; inter-
polations and omissions, 422;
ludicrous lines, ib. ; striking coin-
cidences with Mr. Haselfoot's
translation, 423; characteristics
of the latter, 424; unsuccessful
renderings, 425; skilful meeting
of difficulties, 426; the question
of rhymes, 427; spurious rhymes
of Dean Plumptre, 427 n.; line
endings, 428; Mr. Haselfoot's
reproduction of the power of
Dante, 429; comparison of ren-
derings by both translators,
429 sqq.; specimens of Mr. Hasel-
foot's excellences, 433; Dean
Plumptre's 'working hypotheses,'
434
Dix, Rev. Dr., The Gospel and
Philosophy, 511
Documentary discoveries on Church
history, Fifty years of, 182 sqq.;
Dr. Lechler's tract on the sub-
ject, 184; the Clementine Homi-
lies, 185; the writer's use of St.
John's Gospel acknowledged,
186; the marginal comments on
the Acts of the Aquileian Coun-
cil, 187; new materials for the
life of Ulfilas, ib. ; accidental dis-
coveries of books supposed to be
lost, 188; Hippolytus's Refuta-
tion of all Heresies, and the
Gnostic speculations of the se-
cond century, 189 sq.; Syrian
MSS. from the Nitrian Desert,
191; the Letters of Ignatius,
192; a dialogue ascribed to Bar-
desanes of Edessa, 193; 'Festal
Letters' of Athanasius, 194; the
Ecclesiastical History of John of
Ephesus, ib.; the Syriaca vetus,
195; Tischendorf's Sinaitic MS.,
196; two new authorities for
Clementine Epistles, 197;
Diatessaron by Ephrem Syrus,
198 sq.; a work by Macarius
Magnes, 200; a Syriac transla-
tion of Eusebius's Church His-
tory, 201; the Didaché, ib.; the
Fayûm collection of MSS., 202
Dogmatic theology, the Rev. R.
Owen's treatise on, 448 sqq.; de-
finition of a dogma, 449; its mean-
ing in Plato, in the LXX, and in
the New Testament, 450; dogmas
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in philosophy, 451; theology starts
from admitted principles, 453;
definition of a theological dogma,
ib.; influence in theology of a
keen sense of personal sinfulness,
454; lack of Anglican treatises
on dogmatic theology, 455; merits
and defects in Mr. Owen's book,
456; his use of the Fathers, 457;
the doctrine of the Holy Trinity,
458; the existence of evil, 459 ;
the Filioque' clause, 460; treat-
ment of St. Augustine, 461; theo-
logical literature on predestina-
tion, 462; the assertion that
Anglicanism is unhistorical, 463
NGLISH ART, Fifty years of,
161 sqq.; the Manchester Ju-
bilee Exhibition, 161; notice of
works on English art by Mr.
Armstrong, Mr. Hodgson, and
M. Chesneau, 162 sq.; the de-
cline of oil-painting, 164; flour-
ishing condition of water-colour,
165; Turner and David Cox, ib.;
the secret of Landseer's success,
166; Holman Hunt and Millais
in 1855, 167; the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood, ib.; the object of
the movement, 168; its perma-
nent influence upon English art,
169; Dante Rossetti's work, 170;
Holman Hunt's works on the life
of our Lord, 171; Sir J. Millais's
works, 172; Madox Brown, ib. ;
Burne Jones, 173; Watts, 174;
Frederick Walker and G. Mason,
175; Sir F. Leighton, 176; Alma
Tadéma, 177; distinguished land-
scape-painters, 178; portrait-
painting, ib.; splendid capabi-
lities wasted by the nation, 179;
uneducated state of public taste,
180; the need of spreading 'right
ideas' on art, 181 sq.
Eyre, Archbishop, The History of
St. Cuthbert, 513
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