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"A Standard Bible Dictionary." Designed
as a comprehensive guide to the Scriptures,
embracing their languages, literature,
history, biography, manners and
customs, and their theology. Edited by
Melancthon W. Jacobus, D. D., (Chairman
of the Editorial Board) Dean and
Hosmer Professor of New Testament
Exegesis and Criticism, in Hartford
Theological Seminary; Edward E.
Nourse, D. D., Professor of Biblical
Theology and Instructor in New Testament
Canonicity and Textual Criticism
in Hartford Thelogical Seminary; and
Andrew C 7.pnns n r* Prnfooonr
Ecclesiastical History in McCormick
Theological Seminary, Chicago; In associaUon
with American, British and
German scholars. Embellished with
New and Original Illustrations and
Maps. Large Quarto. 9,000 Titles, 944
pages. Cloth $6 net. New York and
London: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
1909.
The above is the title in full of this
new aspirant for a place in our reference
book shelves. The work has been prepared
at a very heavy expense, some
$50,000. Its writers have been picked
men, eminent in their several departments
of scholarship, thirty seven in
number and representing seven denominations
of the Protestant Church in
America, Great Britain and Europe. It
is more man a uiDie Dictionary, verging
almost upon being a work on General and
Special Introduction, with some titles
that are theological rather than Biblical,
and giving abundant material concerning
the Apocrypha and names and wants
of the interbiblical period. In type and
arrangement it is excellent for reference.
It transliterates the Hebrew and Greek.
It gives much of the bibliography of the
topics presented. Use is made of the
alphabetical thumb index to indicate
quickly the position of the contents. The
maps and illustrations are attractive and
informing. Analyses are given of the
most important articles and some of the
oooks or the Bible.
As to the contents of the book, the
evidences of scholarly work abound
everywhere. The articles on unimportant
topics are crisp and clear, on important
themes greatly extended. The one
great feature of the book to which we
would take exception is the delivery of
every topic about which there has been
debate to the hands. of the advanced
school of critics, as that throughout it is
the rationalistic criticism that colors the
discussion of authorship, date and purpose
of the books of the Bible. The ex
treme position is taken wherever possible.
The composite nature of the Hexateuch
and its several parts the Manasseh
date of Deuteronomy, the Maccabean
date of Daniel and the double authorship
of Isaiah, are accepted as facts. The au:.nor
of the article on Daniel falls Into
the usual emphasis laid upon Aramaic
language there and to the appearance of
E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU'
two or three Greek names of musical instruments.
The author of the article on
Deuteronomy is wise enough to say nothing
about the "planting" and alleged discovery
of the "Book of Law" by Hilkiah.
a piece of fiction which usually goes
along with his theory of its late authorr.U:?
Dili p.
"The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of
Religious Knowledge." Edited by Samuel
Macauley Jackson, D. D.. LL. D..
(Editor-in-Chief), Charles C. Sherman,
George W. Gilmore M. A., (Associate
Editors), and others. Complete in
twelve volumes. Volum.e IV. Draeseke-Goa.
Large Quarto, 500 pages.
Prices: Cloth, $5 per volume. Per set,
$60; Sheep, $84; Half Morocca, $96;
Full Morocco $108. New York and
London: Funk and Wagnalls Company.
1909.
The successive volumes of this great
encyclopedia of religious knowledge are
appearing with great regularity, one
every three months. As a simple matter
nf mooh onlnol ~ ?*
? ,Uwvui?.iv<>i nuin luul ia marvelous,
and especially so when one sees how accurately
and how handsomely it has been
done. But when the contents are examined
the wonder increases. The five
hundred great pages of this fourth volume
treat 948 different topics, by 176
scholarly collaborators. The method of
treatment has been described heretofore.
The editors have aimed to deal with
impartiality when there are opposing
views, by affording, in most cases, to both
sides an opportunity to present them.
The present volume does not touch
many leading points in religious, biblical,
or theological discussions. The Church
of England, Episcopacy, Eschatology, Finland,
France, Germany, and the Books of
Ecclesiastes, Esther, Ezekiel, Ezra and
Nehemiah (which are treated as one),
furnish the topics which are most fully
treated. Mrs. Eddy is noticed, very
slightly and her indebtedness to Dr.
Quimby properly mentioned. In the study
of Ecclesiastes and Esther, the editors
hardly keep their promise as to impartial
treatment. Only the most advanced
critical position is stated and argued. Ecclesiastes
is represented as having been
written at the end of the period in which
the Hebrew language was used, and in
Egypt. Esther is represented as the
product of oral tradition plus noteworthy
"literary reaction," and about the most
that is reluctantly admitted is that it has
a "historical kernel."
This great work is one whose place
can not be filled by any other extant. It
brings together the scholarship and information
from a range so wide than
none could compass it or possess the
sources. As it is designed primarily for
American students, however, we could
wish that it were a little less German.
The bulk of it comes from -Germanic
sources, and the bibliography of the subjects
treated is very largely German.
The one who wilfully goes in the way
of evil is as one who thrusts his hand
into a hornet's nest or into the adder's
den.
TH. November 17, 1909.
"Little Sister Snow" is the title of a new
book issued by The Century Company,
October 9.
The author, Frances Little, is, we are
II11U1IIIMU. iUi'y. Funnit^ C. Macaulay, of
Louisville, Ky., whose story, "The Lady
of the Decoration," has been so favorably
MISS FRANCES LITTLE.
received. By the kindness of The Century
Co. we are permitted to use a reproduction
of a recent photograph.
So if thou be a walker with God, it will
appear in the relations wherein thou
stande8t; for grace makes a good husband,
a good wife, a good master, a good
servant.?Thomas BoBton.
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a constant user of it all these years.
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and am not nervous."
Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs"There's
a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.