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NOW READY.— FOUR VOLUMES. 

 Section I.— The Pentateuch. Section II.— The Historical Books. 



GENESIS.— By Rt. Rev. E. Hakold part i, 



Browne, D.D. JOSHUA.— By Rev. T. E. EsriN, P.D. 



EXODUS, Chap. I.-XIX.— By The Ed- JUDGES, RUTH, SAMUEL —By Rt. 



'™''- Rev. Lord Arthur Hervev, M.A. 



EXODUS, Chap^ XX to the end.-By firsT KINGS.-By Rev. George Raw- 



Rev. Samuel Clark, M.A. linson. M.A. 



LEVITICUS. — By Rev. Samuel Clark, part n. 



^'••'^- SECOND KINGS, CHRONICLES, EZ- 



NUMBERS AND DEUTERONOMY. RA, NEHEMIAH, ESTHER.— By 



—By Rev. T. E. Espin, B.D. Rev. George Ravvlinson. 



Section III.— The Poetical Books. 



JOB The Editor. 



fVery Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, M. A., author oi Sermons 

 P'jALMS J Preached in l^e/ls Cathedral. 



I The Editor. 



I Rev. C. I. Elliott, M.A. 



f Rev. K. H. Plumptre, M.A., author of Christ arui Chris- 

 PROVERBS \ tend.^m (Boyle Lectures), Sermons on Tlieology and Life, 



I <5h,-.. <5.-v. 



ECCLESIASTES R;v W. I'. Bullock, M.A., Secretary to the S. P. G. 



SONG OF SOLOMON. . Rev. T. Kingsbury, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. 



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