THE CRITICAL REVIEW OF THEOLOGICAL & PHILOSOPHICAL EDITED BY PROFESSOR S. D. F. SALMOND, D.D. VOL. III. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET. 1893. M'CHEYNE EDGAR'S THE GOSPEL OF A RISEN SAVIOUR; SKETCHES FROM EASTERN HISTORY; BLACK'S THE BOOK OF JUDGES; CORNILL'S EINLEITUNG IN DAS ALTE TESTAMENT; CAPRON'S THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN; MOELLER'S HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH; WORSLEY'S THE DAWN OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION; BONAR'S MEMOIR AND REMAINS OF THE REV. ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE; LIGHTFOOT'S DISSERTATIONS ON THE APOSTOLIC AGE; WENDT'S THE TEACHING OF JESUS; LIPSIUS'S BRIEFE AN DIE GALATER, RÖMER, PHILIPPER; ZAHN'S GESCHICHTE DES NEUTESTAMENTLICHEN KANONS; ROBIN- SON AND JAMES'S THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PETER AND THE REVELATION OF PETER; NEW BOLT'S PENITENCE AND PEACE; BRIGHT'S MORALITY IN DOCTRINE; PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS UPON EVERY VERSE OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS; BEET'S THROUGH CHRIST TO GOD; ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR THEOLOGIE UND KIRCHE; AMERI- CAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY; THE PRESBYTERIAN AND REFORMED REVIEW; THE EXPOSITORY TIMES; THE HOMILETIC REVIEW; BIBLIA; REVUE DE THEOLOGIE 105 Apologetics; or, Christianity Defensively Stated. By Alexander Balmain Bruce, D.D. (being the third volume of the "International Theological Library," edited by Professor Salmond, D.D., and Professor Briggs, D.D.) Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. Post 8vo. Pp. xvi. 522. Price 10s. 6d. THIS volume, the third in the series of the "International Theological Library," like its predecessors, is designed to meet the growing demand of the present day for a more thorough scientific treatment of theological subjects, in relation to modern controversies, and with the fuller light shed on them by the researches and matured judgment of experts in the various branches of Theology. The success that has attended the issue of the first volume, by Dr Driver, and the generous reception so recently given to the second, by Dr Newman Smyth, combined with the well-established reputation of Dr Bruce, have naturally raised expectations concerning the present volume. Dr Bruce is too well-known to our readers to need here and now any introduction. He has already attained distinction as a clear, fearless, and yet cautious thinker. His previously published works have done not a little in directing and giving tone to learned thought and inquiry on some of the most crucial and perplexing questions of our time. He has contributed his fair proportion of solid thinking towards that reconstruction of our theology for which, in its manifold departments, we are all striving and waiting. The promoters of this movement have conferred a boon on the theological world in securing his services for the treatment of a subject which is felt, alike by those who rest in faith and those who are being tossed on the restless sea of doubt, to be of the deepest interest to the individual life, and fraught with momentous issues to Society. The present volume will well sustain the author's reputation. From beginning to end it bears on it the impress of a man who has a firm grip of the matters he handles; who clearly understands the positions he assails, and who, while in sympathy with such as walk in darkness and considerate of the difficulties of faith, is strong in his adhesion to what evidently has passed through the testing processes of his own intellect and heart. Everywhere there is manifest fairness in stating the case of an opponent or a doubter, combined with a steady eye for the truth which often lies hidden under the difficulties presented, or, as the |