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by Dr. SCHAFF. It is on the Books of Samuel, by Rev. Dr. Chr. Fr.
DAVID ERDMANN, Professor of Theology in the University of Breslau, andc
is translated, enlarged and edited in an able manner by Rev. C. H. Toy,
D.D., LL.D., and Rev. JOHN A. BROADUS, D.D., LL.D., Professors in
the Theological Seminary in Greenville, S. C. We welcome this addition.
to our apparatus for the due interpretation and application of this particular
book of Scripture in itself, and as an earnest of the speedy completion of the
publication in English of the exhaustive and encyclopediac work of which it
is a part.
Outlines of Hebrew Grammar, by GUSTAVUS BICKELL, D.D., Professor
of Theology at Innsbruck, revised by the author, and annotated by the
translator, SAMUEL IVES CURTISS, JR., Ph.D., with a lithographic table
of Semitic characters, by Dr. J. EUTING, Leipzig, i877. This little book of
I40 pages contains a great deal of instructive matter with reference to the
history and etymology of the Hebrew language. It is not an introductory
grammar to vie with Davidson, Green or Seffer, or, indeed, a text-book of a,
more advanced character. It is rather an outline of the principles of
Hebrew grammar from the standpoint of comparative philology, and thus
designed for advanced students. As such it has its appropriate place among
the constantly increasing number of Hebrew grammars. The principles of
Hebrew accentuation ( i8-20) have been prepared by Dr. Franz Delitzsch,.
the very best authority on this subject. Dr. Curtiss has done excellent work
both in his translation and notes. We can only express our regret that
Hebrew syntax receives so little attention, for this subject demands more
labor, and needs that more light should be thrown upon it.
The A4.ologies of _ustin Martyr, and the Efiistle to Diognetus, with
an introduction and notes, d y BAsIL L. GILDERSLEEVE, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Greek in the John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Harpers, I877.
This new volume of the Douglas series of Christian Greek and Latin writers
is an admirable one. The introductions are full and satisfactory; the
analysis thorough, and the text carefully edited. The notes are the chief
features of the book, and these are models of conciseness, completeness
and scholarship. The points of syntax, especially, are worthy of careful
consideration, as Dr. Gildersleeve brings into comparison with the Greek of
Justin, the classic authors, the LXX, the New Testament, and Hellenistic
writers generally, as well as the Hebrew idiom. There are three indices:
Greek terms, texts of Scripture, and subjects. This work will be even more
useful to theological students and the studious ministry than to students of
Christian Greek in the college course.
T. & T. Clark of Edinburgh and Scribner, Welford & Armstrong publish, at $3.oo00, another volume of Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Com-e
mentary on the New Testament, being Vol. I. of the Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Acts of the AMposties, extending through chapter xii;
translated by the PATON J. GLOAG, D. D., and revised and edited by Dr.