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THE APOCRYPHAL », NEW TESTAMENT,

(Special Review.) All readers of New Testament Literature will be deeply interested in the appearance of this book. It certainly fills a long-felt want. Renders of the New Tustment

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works are the productions of the authors whose numes they bear is not the question.

On such a scare a large part of the New Testament would be apocryphal, for few critics now attribute the Canonical books to their supposed authors. Even the Pauline Epistles which were at one time counted the least doubtful ure now called in question. Dein Inge only incepts seven as gentine: Dr. Martinent, a writer of much greater philosophient and criticut acumen only werpted six: while Dr. Selimiedel accepts noms as from the pen of the Apostle Paul.

To the ordinary ouder the foundations of the Camun, are not

THE CHINA MAIL.

BATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1924.

couple were scarce ont of their ing It To 48 the "évérlásting ?*** THE BOOK LOVER 25 honeymoon when they made the credit of the directors of the East acquaintance of Peacock, which

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soon ripened into a real and last-India Company that they were Stone walls do not a prison makes ing friendship which showed no not averse from employing diminution with the years. It men. Peacock was sarcastic, but clever was Shelley's misfortune to be

But my sole walls are motes misunderstood, his blographers he was singularly sane; whilst which join across the spotted page

black, tell us; but his greatest mis- Charles Lamb, who was also in Anil grip any eyes and bend my fortune was in misunderstanding their employ, kept all his whim- himself, and the people who pro sicality for home consumption. fessed to be his friends. They were a curious crowd, and Peacock At the end of three years Peacock Above, beyond, in other worlds,” stands head and shoulders above was promoted, and fourteen years most of them, both mentally and later he rose to the post of chief The lover laughs and breaks his morally.

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endeavours throughout his whole without their weak points. In the Trengen might be a mas with the was born in fortunate circum. John Stuart Mill. After thirty- Across the lattico of the boughs. ·

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which barely missed the NT Canon. Had it not been lost it must certainly have been placed in the Canon us a fifth Gospel Trenneus would then have had to change his tune. There would have to be five Gospels because we have five fingers-and-toes, and five senses; and beeing there were five planets known to the ancients. Dr. James learning is so great that his historic sise seems to have weakened These carly

considerably. centuries when minudes could happen at any hour of the day and niglit at every street corner from Antioch ta Peacock's life was a long and the author of "The History of And Spring weaves •fragilo tapes- Dr. James is wrong.

Rome, are treated just as if they busy one. The only child of British India," and being suc- Dr. James

were

the nineteenth century: prosperous London merchant, he ceeded by his more famous son, book to separate as far as possible time of Ireneus a section of the acute critical faculty of a Nir Leslie stances,

active service, T. Canon and

At twenty-three years seven the Church doubted the authenticity of Stephen. Apocrypha. This is an amerition) | the Fourth Gospel. Instead of No

of age he was under-secretary to Peacock was retired with a sub-Those worlds are hard about my attitude and of is little worth as explaining to such unbelievers.what attempted of this seething mass of of E.MLS. "Venerable," but threw eight-first year, having lived to A ghost, I cannot raise my head,

rational explanation is Sir Home Popham, Commander stantial pension. He died in his the corresponding attempt to divide he knee of the authorship and literature epistolary, mankind morally to sheep authenticity of the Fourth Gospel apocalyptica which in defered with his literary ambition, George Meredith, the poet and But goad my tortured brain to trace

didactic. up this position because it inter-see his daughter married to goals.

Trennensys, Since there are course

the Canoniert Books which was to be a poet.

Few men could have Their finer inago in the dead. have always felt the curious hiatus

we are, and four chief winds, the line forms from a saturated Shelley he began to know himself, hands before the fire of life. It Shadows--the lover and his Spring, four quarters of the world in which segregated themselves, as crystal when Peacock began to know more truthfully echoed Landor'a between the N. T. Cuion and the

proud farewell: "I warmed both Gospels, which are to be co-exten- solution. N. T. Apocryplz. The New

sive with the world, and to be the tains much that is new,

Dr. James' work con- and he realized that he would

On,,on beyond the printed hill,” Testament was always easy of

breath of life, blowing incorrupti-like the Apocalypse of Thomas, lower slopes of Parnassus.

Some,never do more than graze on the sink, and I am ready to depart."

Across the desert of the page. access; the mass of the apocryphal

Yes, bility on men and vivifying them, appear now in English for the first rending "Alastor," Peacock elected more of the relation between

Peacock seems to have known, A bird singthat will not be still. books were unobtainable and most as we read we cannot help feeling must be four. Other reas time: Many others antist he dif- mainly to write prose. His writ Shelley and Harriet than any of #y unheard of by the general how different his expressions are that the Gospel is given by ficult to find in English dress. All ing so far had been Imitative, their other friends. He certainly de Homeocryphal New would have been if the gem who sits above the ebernhim are annotated with told learning henceforth it should be original; sympathized with her, and he Testament published over alum books had chanced to buve been which is 1 fourfold figure by Dr. James dred years ago supplied some of embodied in the Canon. He would and it answers to the Beasts in

it had reflected books, it should defended her memory long after the more importint writings; then be using his ingenuity to Rev, IV., which are four and it

now reflect men. The first fruits | her death.". He was not the man, life Apocryphal New Testament defend them much

of this change was Peacock's however, to take sides with 11.M certain must correspond with. God's coven-/ published in the Temple Classics. T. critics do with regard to the ants through Adam. Noah, Moses.

"Headlong Hall," followed by either; for, knowing. both as he (Messrs. Dent & Co.) also supplied song of Solomon because it hap and Christ which are four.

"Melincourt," "Nightmare Ab- - fpw.

Apart from these the pens to have got a place in the

bey," and these other books render had to dive into massive. T. Canon.

which; distinguished Peacock from tomes of theology or foreign texts, What strikes the ordinary render

other authors, and on which his Now we have a good English trans-most is the falsity of this" "sheep

reputation rests. lation of most of the Apocryphai and gat view.** books which appeared during the first three or four centaries. of the -Early Churk

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James hurls such objectives

At the Apocryphal hooks Dr. "theatrien]," "jejune, etc., and expressions like dreary stuff terms which he would not dare about the Canonical books.

Can anyone after reading this doubt that, when the Cunon even indirectly depended in the verdict of such a man, it is more by good luck than by good judgment that the N. T. Canon is what it is to-day!

Dr. James leaves out all thos books which he condemns Hone for putting into the Apayph This is

H. CROOK. The Apocrypha New Testa ment, being the apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses newly tennslated by Montague Rhodes Jumex, Litt-D.. F.B.A., FSA Provod of Eton.1

PEACOCK, THE FRIEND-OF-

· SHELLEY,

But Hovelist.

After

-DUDLEY CAREW.

BOOKS AND BEER.

Zola, too, replied that he abstained from alcohol:

did, he probably thought they Pierre Loti was, strangely were both to blame. Peacock was enough for a Frenchman and a a real friend, After Shelley saflor, a staunch teetotaler. Some returned to England with Mary time ago & Paris paper, organized. Godwin, many of their friends and an inquiry into the beverages of Peacock's stories are not novels, relations forsook them. Peacock the philosophers, the authors, From the gospel of Jolui to the

but they are a succession of was not of the number, for he and the artists," and in this Loti Apucalypse of Peter the writings,

scenes in English country houses, often used to pass his evenings was persuaded to take. part, tail of hy easy gridations; some of

The people, united by the ties or with them. Shelley's chief em- "I am three parts Mussulman.”. The book is a mine of scholarship those, The Shepherd of Hernus

friendship, have enough in com-ployment at this time was the he wrote. "I never drink any and nseurch. The author, Dr. and others which just missed the

mon to like each other heartily, raising of money or his expecta-form of alcohol and never have James, is so appallingly learned on N. T. Canon by the skin of their

Life runs not smoothly at all and enough Individuality to differ tions from the race which Byron drunk any. I do not even drink all subjects dealing with Old and teeth, so to say, being in scue James part-for-two-O

great mistake" "on" Dr.

seasons, even with the har from each other widely. Peacock's called "Jews and their fellow-wine or beer.” "New Testament. Apocrypln, Early rospects more interesting than First, he hopes his hook will super-

picst; and after a long course, Prose is what Matthew Arnold Christians." Peacock was very "Church History, and kindive sub- some of the books inchided in the sede Hoar's.

the rocks subside the views maintained that poetry should ataunch; and, mike so many of But one of the jects that the ordinary lay rezilie Euïson. Of course at the tail end thief values of Hone's book is that

wide and it flows on more be a criticism of life the social, Shelley's friends, he never esa, hardly dare to intrude. And we reach books of very little or no has a handy English translation

equably at the end.—"Landor." political, national life of his own borrowed money from him, nor yet we do not like the mentality of religions, ethical, or literary validif- the---Shepherd of HemusAmong all the friends and lith certain of present, but

people. Peacock was very Eng-abused him. Dr. James of his historical qutlook. Dr. James' second charge against Clement's Epistles to the Corin acquaintances of Shelley, the doubtful of future, good. Shelley reward for his devotion.

The first part of his preface is Hone is that a large puri of his thians, the Epistle of Barnabus, name of Thomas Love Peacock admired

Peacock has reaped a rich His taken up with a savage ftuck on book is taken up with "The Epistles de..-works which were

these satires, and he name is forever" entwined with Hone's Apocryphal New Testa of Clement of Rome, Barabas, read in the Early Church.

nuch stande first and foremost, for no forgave the author the kindly that of one of England's greatest ment of a hundred years previous, gmth, and Polycarp, and the reader looks in vain for these in poet came

The influence with which the young caricature of himself Fone is condemned on several Stephent of Heras which are James; and he finds it difficult to healthful, and none so sane and Abbey," a sketch all Shelleyans man he was.

as poets, and readers will always be in contact was so "Scythrop" in "Nightmare curious to know what manner of counts. The first is that be printed not apocryphai.''

geta Judy translation if he sacri- unselfish-Peacock was seven should read.

Peacock may have his Apocryplu in clapter, word This is only a quibble on Hone's fires his Hone. yers, double columns, eto,,ad use of the word 'Apocryphul,*

Secondly. Dr. years older than Shelley when

missed popularity in his literary Tade it appear in other ways us Every reader myderstood without For he actually translates, all the Rhayader, Wales.

James acts very inconsistently. they first met at Nant Gwilt, near ment, Peacock was offered a clerk-distinction.

Following his naval appoint: career, but he certainly achieved Unknown to the. an appendix or comimustion of the any difficulty what Hone meant. verses that are

Shelley had ship in the East India Company's crowd, his works are yet read by New Testament. Dr. James just as he understands now what is Gospel according to the Hebrews. Oxford University for Atheism, papers were returned with the ture. What more can any author extant of the recently been expelled from offices. At his examination, his discriminating lovers of litera- greatly objects to this. We think meant by. The Shakespeare! Now this he not peryplul at all, and he had just eloped with unusual endorsement: "Nothing want? Hone was right in this and thai Apnerypha." Whether these and is not even amongst those Harriet Westbrook," The young superfluous, and nothing want-

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MISINERMUS

"I drink nothing but water, and find that I can write best in the early morning, before I have had anything to eat or drink," he replied.

reply

Camille Flammarion's was in very different terms:

"You are good enough to ask me what I drink, and if pure water agrees with me as a bever- I can only say that I have never age. In reply to the latter query. drunk water, regarding it as Buit- able only for external usage.".

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