Contemporary Literature [pp. 395-424]

408 CONTEMPORARY HTL'RATURE. [Apni~
in the structure of the book, but are substantial and sound. In some
cases the early training of the author (a converted Rabbi) supplies him
with resources that are turned to good account. The Song of Deborah
is very powerfully rendered.
The Commentary on Ruth, while calling for a more limited variety of
resources, tests the more delicate qualifications of the scholar with unusual
thoroughness. The work is worthily executed.
The volume in its mechanical execution deserves very high praise. It
appears to us to surpass in this respect all its predecessors. C. A. A.
A Harmo"ty of the Four Cosj5els iu Creek, according to the Tert ff
Tisehendorf; with a Collation of the Textus Receptus, and of the Texts
of Griesbach, Lachmann and Tregelles. By FREDERICK GARDINER, D.D
Andover; W. F. Draper. 1871. The title of this treatise indieates its general character. The arrangement of the Harmony does not depart greatly
from that of Newcome as revised by Robinson. At the same time it is
somewhat modified by Greswell, as a leading English authority, and by
Tischendorf as a leading German. The notes of the author are marked
by scholarship and good sense. The student will find it a convenient
manual for the study of the gospels, because he sees upon one and the
same page the readings of the principal editions and manuscripts, together
with the quotations made by the evangelists from the Old Testament. We
are not prepared to adopt Tischendorf's text as the best and final one to
be derived from the uncials. While the merit of this scholar as a "diplomatist" is unquestionably great, we think his critical tact and sagacity
much inferior to that of Lachmann. He seems to lack that insight which
depends so greatly upon a logical mind, and which has made the labors
of Bentley and Lachmann so distinguished in the province of classical crit —
icism. With this remark, we heartily recommend this well-printed and
well-made book, as a valuable addition to the existing apparatus for the
study of the Life of Christ. W. G. T. S.
Dr. Gardiner has also prepared A Harmony of the Four Gospels in
English, according to the A uthorired Ve~sion, (also published by Draper),
the same as the above in arrangement, notes, etc., with emendations of
the authorized English Version from the best critical editions of the
original. A very convenient Table compares the harmonies of Greswell,
Stroud, Robinson, Abp. Thomson and Tischendorf. The corrections
are all judiciously made; though under John i. j8, there is no reference
to the strongly supported reading, "only begotten God," instead of "only
begotten Son." The same author completes a series by The LJe of onr
Lord in the Words of the Cos~et, (i2mo. pp. 260) in the order of the
Harmony. This will give many readers a new view of the unity of the
tour-fold biography. All these works are in every respect well got up.
St. faul's E~istle to the Calatians. A Revised Text, with Introduction