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[2°d S. NO 48., Nov. 29. '66. 



rected, and brought down to the present Time." These 

 creditable words appear in front of a work now before U8 

 — a work of established reputation, and which has now 

 for nearly forty years supplied English readers with a 

 mass of most useful and practical information for their 

 guidance in the study of the Sacred Writings. We need 

 scarcely say that the work we thus refer to is An Intro- 

 duction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy 

 Scriptures, by the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, B.D. ; 

 but we may state that it is a peculiarity of this new re- 

 vised and enlarged edition, that in its production the 

 editor has had the cooperation of the Kev. Samuel Da- 

 vidson, D.D., author of the Treatise on Biblical Criticism, 

 and of the Rev. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, LL. D., 

 author of Remarks on the Printed Text of the Greek Testa- 

 ment, Sfc. After sixty years of almost incessant literary 

 toil, the reverend author of the work might well be ex- 

 pected to need assistance in bringing his work up to the 

 present state of biblical learning : and each of the writers 

 so called in has been employed in that particular division 

 with which he is most familiar. Thus, while the first 

 volume, which is devoted to a Critical Inquiry into the 

 Genuineness, Authenticity, Uncorrupted Preservation, and 

 Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and the third volume 

 containing a Summary of Biblical Geography and Anti- 

 quities, are by the original author, volume the second, 

 which is devoted to the Criticism and Interpretation of 

 the Old Testamtnt, as well as the interpretation of the Bible 

 generallj', is by Dr. Davidson ; — while the fourth volume 

 again, which is devoted to The Literature and Analysis 

 of the New Testament, is in two Parts : the first, contain- 

 ing an Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New 

 Testament, being by Dr. Tregelles, and the second, com- 

 prising Copious Critical Prefaces to the New Testament, 

 and Synopses of their Contents, being by the author and 

 Dr. Tregelles; and who have again laboured conjointly 

 at the Appendix to this fourth volume, which contains 

 Bibliographical and Critical Notices of the Principal Edi- 

 tions of the Old and New Testaments, Polyglott Bibles, 

 Ancient Versions of the Scriptures, and the Apocryphal 

 Books of the Old and New Testaments. We have thus 

 shown how the great labour of preparing the new edition 

 of this work has been divided; and we cannot better 

 conclude this notice, than in the very words with which 

 the editor winds up his own Preface : — " Such are the 

 plan and object of thu work once more submitted to the 

 candour of the public, in the hope that, with the Divine 

 Blessing, it may continue to facilitate the study of the 

 Holy Scriptures, which are able to make us wise unto 

 Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus." 



Under the title of The Ewhteenth Century, or Illustra- 

 tions of the Manners and Customs of our Grandfathers, 

 Mr. Alexander Andrews, a frequent contributor to these 

 columns, has given us a gossiping collection of " shreds 

 and patches" on almost every phase of our social condi- 

 tion in the past century, which will be read with con- 

 siderable interest and amusement ; and would have been 

 really valuable as a book of reference, had Mr. Andrews 

 f I noted his authorities more strictly, and given us an 

 Index. 



The Somersetshire Archeeological and Natural History 

 Society have just published their Proceedings for the 

 Year 1855. It is quite equal to its predecessors in amount 

 of information, if not quite so varied in its character. 



Dunster Church and Cleeve Abbey are very fully illus- 

 trated. 



The Transactions of the Surrey Archeeological Society, 

 1854, 1855, Vol. I. Part I., has also reached us. It is a 

 very creditable first number ; and the various papers in 

 it show how wide and rich k field the Archaeologists of 

 Surrey have to cultivate. 



7%e Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archeeo- 

 logical Society, Vol. I., Part I., has likewise just been issued. 

 It is altogether a most creditable volume. It is varied in 

 its contents, — the papers, many of them, being very able 

 ones, well printed and got up, and nicely illustrated ; and 

 altogether an admirable specimen of what a Local Archae- 

 ological Society can do. 



The appearance of the various transactions, not only of 

 The Archaological Institute and The Archeeological Asso- 

 ciation, but of the various Local Societies, points unmis- 

 takeably to the necessity for some great change in the 

 printing department of The Society of Antiquaries. Might 

 it not be worth the while of that venerable Society to 

 consider whether, in the present state of antiquarian 

 literature, its means and influence might not now be 

 better employed in the production of a New Series of 

 The Vetusta Monumenta than in continuing The Archce- 

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