19. Female Scripture Characters, exemplifying Female Virtues. By Mrs. KING. Tenth edition. London, 1826. 12mo. and numerous subsequent impressions.

The pious and accomplished authoress of this excellent work, which was first published in 1811, composed it expressly for the use of females, in order to supply the absence of Female Scripture Characters in Mr. Robinson's volumes, in which two women only are introduced. Mrs. King's work is much and deservedly used in schools as well as in private families.

20. Female Scripture Biography; including an Essay on what Christianity has done for Women. By Francis Augustus Cox, M.A. London, 1817. 2 vols. 8vo.

21. Scripture Biography; or, Lives and Characters of the Principal Personages recorded in the Old and New Testaments. By John WATKINS, LL.D. London, 1809. 12mo.

22. Scripture Portraits: or, Biographical Memoirs of the most Distinguished Characters recorded in the Old Testament and in the Evangelists. By Robert STEVENSON. London, 1817-20. 4 vols. 12mo.

23. Biographie Sacrée, par A. L. C. COQUEREL. Amsterdam, 1825-26. 4 tomes 8vo. Second Edition, Paris, 1835. in one large volume 8vo.

These volumes, which are neither scientific nor elementary, are designed for well-informed but not learned readers: each article, in alphabetical order, contains a narrative of facts drawn from the Bible, an explanation of difficulties, a sketch of the character, and finally a short summary of the principal texts of Scripture, in which the person is mentioned, besides those which immediately relate to his history. The work is, upon the whole, executed with ability: the objections of infidels are fairly met, and satisfactorily answered, and many judicious reflections are interspersed. The second edition, which is closely printed in order to comprise the work in one volume, has received a very careful revision; the chronology has been added together with various other improvements, which greatly increase the value of M. Coquerel's Sacred Biography.

24. Scripture Biography. By the Rev. Robert Wilson EVANS, M.A. London, 1834-35. 2 vols. 12mo.

25. Scripture Biography; comprehending all the Names mentioned in the Old and New Testaments. By Esther COPLEY. London, 1835. 8vo.

26. A Critical History of the Life of David, in which the principal events are ranged in order of time: the chief objections of Mr. Bayle and others against the character of this prince, and the Scripture account of him, and the occurrences of his reign, are examined and refuted; and the Psalms which refer to him are explained. By the Rev. Samuel CHANDLER, D.D. London, 1766. 2 vols. 8vo.

A book above all praise; it was occasioned by the publication, in 1762, of a vile and blasphemous tract entitled "The History of the Man after God's own Heart." Dr. Chandler has illustrated many of the Psalms in an admirable manner.

27. An Historical Account of the Life and Reign of David King of Israel interspersed with various Conjectures, Digressions, and Disquisitions. In which, among other things, Mr. Bayle's criticisms upon the conduct and character of that Prince are fully considered. [By Patrick DELANY, D.D.] London, 1741-42. 3 vols. 8vo.

A respectable and useful work, but greatly inferior to Dr. Chandler's masterly "Critical History of the Life of David:" it was published anonymously, and has been repeatedly printed; and may frequently be obtained at a low price.

28. The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution; described in the History of the Life and Death of Jesus Christ. With Considerations and Discourses upon the several parts

of the story, and Prayers fitted to the several mysteries. By Jeremy TAYLOR, D.D. Bishop of Down and Connor, folio: also in 2 vols. 8vo. various editions.

This work is also to be found in the second and third volumes of the Collective Works of Bishop Taylor, edited by the Rev. J. R. Pitman, with a memoir of the Bishop's life and writings by the late Bishop Heber; who has given an able and interesting analysis of the Great Exemplar,' and has pointed out some important particulars," in which this great and good man has departed from the usual sense of the church, and the general analogy of Scripture." (Bishop Taylor's Works, vol. i. pp. cxxix-cxxxix.) An abridgment of the 'Great Exemplar' was published by the Rev. W. Darnell. London, 1818. Svo.

29. The History of the Life of Jesus Christ, taken from the New Testament, with Observations and Reflections, proper to illustrate the Excellency of his Character and the Divinity of his Mission and Religion. By George BENSON, D.D. London, 1764. 4to.

30. Observations on the History of Jesus Christ, serving to illustrate the Propriety of his Conduct and the Beauty of his Character. By David HUNTER, D.D. Edinburgh, 1770. 2 vols. 8vo.

31. The Private Character of our Lord Jesus Christ, considered as an Example to all his Disciples, and a Demonstration of his Mission. By Thomas WILLIAMS. London, 1833. 12mo.

Both these works contain many ingenious and instructive remarks on the character and conduct of Jesus Christ, which are either not at all noticed, or but imperfectly considered, by preceding writers who have discussed the evidences of the Christian Religion.

+++ Able reviews of Dr. David Frederic Strauss's neologian Life of Christ (Das Leben Jesu), published at Tübinejen in 1837, will be found in the Church of England Quarterly Review, for January and April, 1838 (with a refutation of its leading principles), and also in the Foreign Review for October, 1838..

In the preceding Compendium of Biblical Bibliography, the Author has endeavoured to bring forward the principal Commentators and Biblical Critics, both British and foreign. Many of them, indeed, are too costly to be purchased by the generality of biblical students; but a considerable portion, if not the whole of them, is to be found in our public libraries, and it is desirable to know in what works the best information is to be procured, even though we may not in every instance be able to purchase them, as well as to be on our guard lest we should be misled in buying cheap books, which are of comparatively little utility. Ample as these lists are, they might have easily been enlarged, particularly with reference to the earlier works on Sacred Philology, if the limits of the present volume would have permitted it. The reader, however, who is curious in seeing what has been written on this subject, may (besides the authorities already referred to in page 223. suprà) consult the first volume of the classed Catalogue of the Library of the President and Fellows of Queen's College, Cambridge (London, 1827, royal 8vo.) pp. 22-91.; and also the Bibliotheca Piersoniana, or Catalogue of the Rev. Dr. Pierson's Library (sold by auction in May, 1815). The Sale Catalogues of the principal theological Booksellers of London, Cambridge, Oxford, Bristol, and Exeter, which are frequently interspersed with useful bibliographical notices, are particularly valuable, for the numerous commentaries and other works on sacred criticism which they contain, both British and foreign, especially the latter.

On the choice of commentators, it would be presumptuous in the author of this work to offer an opinion; the student will doubtless be regulated in his selection by the judgment of judicious friends or theological tutors.

ADDENDA.

Page 21. No. 26. Line 2. for Bibliotheca read Bibliothecæ.

Page 52.- No. 6.*

Testamentum Novum Coptico-Memphiticum ex MSS. Regiæ Bibliothecæ Berolinensis emendatum à M. SCHWARTZE. Lipsiæ, 1838. 4to.

Page 86. after line 11. add:— A similar explicit testimony to the accuracy of the modern editions of the English Bible (as well as to its fidelity as a version), has been borne in the United States of America (whither Mr. Curtis had emigrated) by a committee of the American Bible Society, specially appointed at New York, in order to compare those editions with the fac-simile reprint of the first edition executed at Oxford in 1833, and with other Bibles issued during the last three centuries. port of that committee is printed in the London Christian Observer for November, 1838 (p. 699.), from which the following attestation is extracted: "While it has been found that numerous variations exist between the early and the present copies of the English Bible, IT IS

The re

ALSO FOUND THAT THEY PERTAIN ONLY TO UNIMPORTANT PARTICULARS ; SUCH AS CAPITAL LETTERS, COMMAS, ITALIC WORDS, ETC., NOT AFFECTING

THE SENSE." . . . "Little motive has been presented to make any changes. Those which have been made were of trivial importance, and usually for the purpose of return and conformation to the early copies.

THIS INVESTIGATION OF THE BOARD HAS PLACED THAT INCOMPARABLE TRANSLATION OF KING JAMES ON HIGHER GROUND IN THEIR ESTIMATION THAN EVER; and their hope is, that every friend of divine truth, using the English tongue, will seek to guard that translation, in future, from all emendations. No Bible among any people has ever had such sway over its readers, as that now referred to; a fact to be accounted for, in part at least, by the wise principles on which it was made. IT WAS OBVIOUSLY PREPARED IN A SPIRIT OF CHRISTIAN compromise," [more correctly, it should have been said, FAIRNESS,] "AS WELL AS WITH GREAT ABILITY AND FAITHFULness. It was so made, that to this day sincere lovers of the Bible, of every religious creed, appeal to it as authority."

Page 124.-7. South African Versions. After Caffre language, add: And in 1837, MM. Pelissier, Arbousset, and Casalis, three missionaries of the French Protestant Evangelical Missionary Society, translated and printed the Gospel of St. Matthew (besides reading lessons, a catechism, hymns and prayers) in the language of the Bassoutos, a people in the interior of Southern Africa, whose very name was unknown in Geography, until they were discovered by the enterprising efforts of the Missionaries, who have carried Christianity and civilisation among them.*

Page 137.- No. 36. Add to the notice of Dr. Carpenter's Harmony of the Gospels

While these concluding pages were passing through the press, Dr. C. published a second edition of his elaborate Harmony; the most material alterations, &c. in which were printed as a supplement for the possessors of the first edition.

13. Introduction Générale aux Livres du Nouveau TestaPar Guillaume STEIGER, ci-devant Professeur de l'Ecole de ThéoGenève et Paris, 1837. 8vo.

Page 161. ment. logie.

This is a posthumous publication, printed from the manuscript notes taken by M. Steiger's pupils, at the time he delivered his lectures. The present work therefore must be regarded as a kind of supplement to an introduction to the study of the New Testament. author gives a summary of the most recent researches concerning the New Testament, and

* L'Europe Protestante. No. I. Octobre, 1838, p. 128.

The

developes some new ideas, without entering into certain details, which are necessary to constitute a complete introduction. Still the fragments, of which this volume consists, contain most valuable information concerning the history of the canon and the text of the New Tes

tament.

Page 200.-21. and 24. After these notices of Gesenius's and Ewald's Grammars of the Hebrew Language had been printed off, the following Treatise was published, containing strictures on the principles upon which their works are composed, and which are followed by Dr. Fuerst in his new edition of Buxtorf's Hebrew Concordance, viz.

24. 11717 [SePHER JeSHURUN.] Isagoge in Grammaticam et Lexicographiam Linguæ Hebraicæ, contra Guil. Gesenium et Hen. Ewaldum auctore Francisco DELITZSCHIO. Grimmæ, 1838. 8vo.

:

This volume also has a second title: "Jesurun: sive Prolegomenôn in Concordantias Veteris Testamenti à Julio Fuerstio editas Libri tres: auctore Francisco DELITZSCHIO. Grimmæ, 1838." 8vo.

Page 202.-12.* A Key to the Hebrew Scriptures; being an explanation of every word in the order in which it occurs. To which is prefixed a short but compendious Hebrew Grammar without points: with some Remarks on Chaldee prefixed to the Book of Daniel. By the Rev. James PROSSER, A.M. London, 1838. 8vo.

Page 252. line 3. of No. 20. For Fasciculi I. - III. read Vols. I. II. and Vol. III. Fasciculus I. Lipsiæ, 1832-38. 8vo.

Page 267. after line 2. add:

6. The Pocket Commentary, consisting of Critical Notes on the Old Testament, original and selected from the most celebrated Critics and Commentators. By David DAVIDSON, Edinburgh, 1836. 2 vols. 18mo.

Page 271.-37.* Notes, critical and practical, on the Books of Joshua and Judges. By George BUSH, A. M., Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature in the New York City University. New York, 1838. 8vo.

Page 280. — 128.* Commentarius Historicus Criticus in Psalmos, in usum maxime Academiarum adornatus. Scripsit Franc. Jos. Valent. Dominic. MAURER. Lipsiæ, 1838. 8vo.

Page 288.186.* Commentarius Grammaticus Criticus in Jesaiam, in usum Academiarum adornatus. Scripsit Franc. Jos. Valent. Dominic. MAURER. Lipsia, 1836. 8vo.

This commentary on Isaiah is extracted from Maurer's work on the Old Testament, which is noticed in page 252. No. 20.

Page 290.229.* A new Illustration of the latter Part of Daniel's last Vision and Prophecy. By James FARQUHARSON, LL.D. London, 1838. 8vo. Page 297. § 5.-4. Ethice Librorum Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti. Scripsit Julius Ferdinandus RAEBINGER. Vratislaviæ, 1838. 8vo.

Page 324. — 158.* Commentarius Perpetuus in Pauli Epistolam ad Philippenses: auctore Wesselo Alberto van HENGEL. Amstelædami, 1838. 8vo.

Page 326. - 173. Pauli Epistola prima ad Timotheum Græce, cum Commentario. Edidit G. E. LEO. Lipsiæ, 1838. 8vo.

Page 338.-278. The opening of the Sealed Book in the Apocalypse shown to be a Symbol of the future Republication of the Old Testament. By Richard Newton ADAMS, D.D. London, 1838. 8vo.

For a notice of this publication, see the Church of England Quarterly Review, for October, 1838, pp. 544-546.

Page 339.-15.* An Exposition, with Practical Observations upon the first Eleven Chapters of the Book of Genesis. By Philip HENRY. Published for the first time by a descendant of the author. London, 1838. 18mo.

Page 343.- 60.* Lectures on the Gospel according to Luke. By the Rev. James FOOTE, A. M. Vol. I. Glasgow and Aberdeen, 1838. 12mo. Page 34471.* Cornelius the Centurion. [Expository Lectures on Acts X.] By F. A. KRUMMACHER, D.D. Translated from the German, with Notes, by the Rev. John W. Ferguson, A.M. Edinburgh, 1838. 12mo. Also as Vol. XXII. of the Edinburgh Biblical Cabinet.

Page 345.-82. the Apostle Paul to Page 367. § 4. 2. Concordantiæ Bibliorum Sacrorum Vulgatæ Editionis, ad recognitionem jussu Sixti V. Pontif. Max. Bibliis adhibitam; recensitæ atque emendatæ, ac plusquam viginti quinque millibus versiculis auctæ, insuper et notis historicis, geographicis, chronicis locupletatæ, cura et studio F. P. DUTRIPON, Theologi et Professoris. Parisiis, 1838.

Lectures, Doctrinal and Practical, on the Epistle of the Romans. Edinburgh and London, 1838. 8vo.

This is the latest as it is the most complete edition of the Concordances hitherto published for the Latin Vulgate Version of the Bible. It is one of the most beautiful specimens of typography, which ever issued from the Parisian press.

Page 382.14. On the Spikenard of the Antients. HATCHETT, Esq. F. R.S. London, [1836.] 4to.

By Charles

This is an instructive Essay on the History of the Spikenard, on the uses to which that precious perfume was applied, and on the estimation in which it was antiently held. It was never published.

Page 396.-13. The Septuagint and Hebrew Chronologies tried by the Test of their internal scientific Evidence; with a Table from the Creation to the Accession of Uzziah, anno B. C. 1810, showing their Jubilæan differences at each date; also on the great periods which terminate and mark the year 1838 as the point of time that sums up and concentrates, as in a focus, the Chronology of all past ages, and appear likewise to show the approach of the end. By William CUNINGHAME, Esq. Edinburgh and London, 1838. 8vo.

DEC. 1. MDCCCXXXVIII.