Contemporary Literature [pp. 175-196]

184 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. [Janut.aryr
tion of Prof. Grimm's edition of Wilke's Clairs, promised in I874, will, wetrust, soon be published. His thorough critical scholarship is manifest on
every page of this translation of Buttmann's New Testament Grammar, and
especially in the useful additions he has made to the work in indexes, references to Greek grammars in current use, (e. g. Hadley's, Crosby's, Donaldson's, Jelt's, etc.), and in the verification of references, and addition of crossreferences. Only an enthusiastic scholar can be so minute and careful. Prof.
Buttmann has contributed more than two hundred and sixty additions and corrections to this American edition, which is brought out in the solid style that
characterizes Mr. Draper's publications.
Buttmann's work, in German, is an appendix to his father's classic Greek
grammar, the I8th edition of which was translated by Dr. Robinson. In the
present edition this inconvenience is rectified by the addition from that grammar of all that is needful to render the statements easily intelligible to readers
unacquainted with that work.
"The New Testament Index has been enlarged so as to include all the
passages from the New Testament referred to in the grammar; and a separate
Index has been added, comprising all the passages cited from the Septuagint.
The other Indexes have been materially augmented; the cross-references
have been multiplied; chapter and verse added to many of the fragmentary
quotations from the New Testament; the pagination of the German original
has been given in the margin; and at the end of the book a glossary of technical terms encountered more or less frequently in commentaries and grammatical works has been added for the convenience of students." References
are also made to Prof. Goodwin's " Syntax of Moods and Tenses," to Winer's
"New Testament Grammar," and occasionally to Prof. Short's admirable
essay on the "Order of Words in Attic Greek Prose," prefixed to Drisler's
edition of Yonge's English-Greek Lexicon, published by the Harpers, N. Y.,
i870. A convenient Glossary of technical terms is appended.
Buttmann's grammar is more exclusively philological than that of Winer,
it has less the character of a concise commentary. It is thoroughly scholarly,
lucid, and compact; and admirably adapted to promote a sound knowledge of
the Greek of the New Testament.
Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. By H. A
W. MEYER, Th.D., Oberconsistorialrath, Hanover. From the German..
The translation revised and edited with the sanction of the author, by W. P.
DiCKSON, D.D., Prof. of Divinity in the University of Glasgow. Part VII.:
Galatians. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark; New York: Scribner, Welford &
Armstrong, who import an edition for this country; price, three dollars a
volume. This is the first volume issued of the proposed translation of Meyer's
commentary on the New Testament; it is well translated by J. H. Venables,
from the fifth edition of the German. The commentaries on the Galatians
by Brown, Ellicott, Lightfoot, Eadie, Schmoller in Lange's Bible Work, and
Wieseler, are admirably supplemented by Meyer; and in these works the student has all needful helps for the thorough study of this epistle. Dr. Meyer