THE CAMBRIDGE PARAGRAPH BIBLE OF THE AUTHORIZED ENGLISH VERSION

with the Text Revised by a Collation of its Early and other Principal Editions, the Use of the Italic Type made uniform, the Marginal References remodelled, and a Critical Introduction prefixed, by the Rev. F. H. SCRIVENER, M.A., LL.D., Editor of the Greek Testament, Codex Augiensis, &c., and one of the Revisers of the Authorized

Version.

From the Times.

“Students of the Bible should be particularly grateful to (the Cambridge University Press) for having produced, with the able assistancé of Dr Scrivener, a complete critical edition of the Authorized Version of the English Bible, an edition such as, to use the words of the Editor, ‘would have been executed long ago had this version been nothing more than the greatest and best known of English classics.” Falling at a time when the formal revision of this version has been undertaken by a distinguished company of scholars and divines, the publication of this edition must be considered most opportune. . . . . .

For a full account of the method and plan of the volume and of the general results of the

investigations connected with it we must refer

the reader to the editor’s Introduction, which contains ἃ mass of valuable information about the various editions of the Authorized Ver-

sion.” From the A/henœum.

‘< Apart from its religious importance, the English Bible has the glory, which but few sister versions indeed can claim, of being the chief classic of the language, of having, in conjunction with Shakspeare, and in an immeasurable degree more than he, fixed the language beyond any possibility of important change. Thus the recent contributions to the literature of the subject, by such workers as Mr Francis Fry and Canon Westcott, appeal to a wide range of sympathies; and to these may now be added Dr Scrivener, well known for his labours in the cause of the Greek Testament criticisin, who has brought out, for the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, an edition of the English Bible, according to the text of 111, revised by a comparison with later issues on principles stated by him in his Introduction. Here heenters at length into

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the history of the chief editions of the version, and of such features as the marginal notes, the use of italic type, and the changes of orthography, as well as into the most interestin

question as to the original texts from whic

our translation is produced. . . . . . .

Dr Scrivener may be congratulated on a work which will mark an important epoch in the history of the English Bible, and which is the result of probably the most searching examination the text has yet received.”—

From Notes and Queries.

“The Syndics of the University Press deserve great credit for this attempt to supply biblical students and general readers with a copy of the Bible, which presents the arrangement of an unbroken text in paragraphs accommodated to the sense (the numerals, indicating the chapters and verses, being removed to the margin); with the broad distinction between the prose and poetical portions of Scripture duly maintained, and with such passages of the Old Testament as are quoted in the New being marked by the use of open type.”

From the Sfec/ator.

“Mr. Scrivener has carefully collated the text of our modern Bibles with that of the first edition of 1611, restoring the original reading in most places, and marking every place where an obvious correction has been made ; he has made the spelling as uniform as possible ; revised the punctuation (punctuation, as those who cry out for the Bible without note or comment should remember, is a continuous commentary on the text); carried out consistently the plan of marking with italics all words not found in the original, and carefully examined the marginal references. The name of Mr. Scrivener, the learned editor of the ‘Codex Augiensis,’ guarantees the quality of the work.”

THE STUDENTS EDITION of the above, on good writing paper,

with one column of print and wide margin to each page for MS. notes. This edition will be found of great use to those who are engaged in the task of Biblical criticisom. Two Vols. Crown Quarto, embossed cloth, δος,

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ROYAL INJUNCTIONS OF 1535,

by JAMES BASS MULLINGER, M.A. Demy 8vo. cloth (734 pp.), 185.

“We have hitherto had no satisfactory

book in English on the subject. ... The fourth

chapter contains ἃ most interesting account of ‘Student Life in the Middle Ages,” butan abstract of it would take up so much space that we must refer our readers to the book itself. Our difficulty throughout has been to give any adequate account of a book in which 80 much interesting information is condensed, and we must for the present give up any hope of describing the chapters on ‘Cambridge at the Revival of Classical Learning” and ‘Cambridge at the Reformation,” though a better account nowhere exists of one of the most eventful periods of our'history....We trust Mr Mullinger will yet continue his history and bring it down to our own day.”

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“Any book which throws light on the origin and early history of our Universities will always be gladiy welcomed by those who are interested in education, especially a book which is so full of varied information as Mr. Muilinger’s History of Cambridge. He has brought together a mass of instructive details respecting the rise and progress, not only of his own University, but of all the principal Universities of the Middle Ages...... We hope some day that he may continue his labours, and give us a history of the University during the troublous times of the Reformation and the Civil War.”—Arhkenœur.

‘Mr Mullingers work is one of great learning and research, which can hardiy fail to become a standard book of reference on the subject. ... We can most strongly recommend this book to our readers.”—S#ecriafor.