Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-27

lands sees sights which ever afterward
remain fixed in his mind. He sees the mon
beside the boat: the giraffe looking over
the tree tops at the nearing horsemah,
the ostrich fleeing at a speed that none
may rival: the snarling leopard and coiied
python. with their lethaI beauty: the re
bras, barking IN the moonlight, as the
laden caravan passes on Its night march
through a thirsty land. In after years
there shall come to him memories or the
lions charge: OF the great bulk or the
elephant. close at hand in the somher
woodland: of the buffalo. his sullen eyes
lowering from under his helmet of horn:
Of the rhinoceros. truculent and stupto,
sanding In the bright sunlight on the
empty plain.
These things can be told. But there
are no words that can tell the hidden
spirit or the wilderness. that can reveal
its mystery its melancholy and its
charm. There IS delight in the hardy life
of the open. in long rides rife in hand,
In the thrill of the fight with dangerous
game. Apart from this. yet mingled with
IL. Is the strong attraction of the silent
places. OF the large tropic moons and the
splendor of the new stars: where the
wanderer sees the awful glory Of sun
shine and sunset in the wide waste spaces
OF the earth, unworn OF man and changed
only bv the slow change of the ages
through time everlasting"
Ia CRITICAL AND EXEGETyC ~.
COMMENTARY OF GENESIS. BY
John Skinner. r. -. Principal and
Professor of Old Testament Ian
guaEe and Literature, Westminster
College. Cambridge.
ia CRITICAL AND ExEGETICAL
CHRONICLES. BY Edward Lewis
Curtis. Phi. n. y. D., Professor OF
Hebrew Language and Literature
in the Divinity School Of Yale Uni
versity. and Albert Aionzo Madsen,
Ph. d. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. Washington: Woodward
Lothrop.
I. What point Of service to the theo-
logical technician. this rich and reason
able study may reach. the uIrinitiate Is
unable to Judge. though his conjecture
places IL high. To the general and in
telligent Bible reader, however, ii comes.
through its reasonableness and richness.
through its authority and It's use Of
earthly working tools. as the solvent Of
a perplexity. Examination. comparison.
judgment here produce classifcations
and literary placements that permit one
to read the Bible, or this part OF II,
without a secret apology to his own God
patterned faculties. and with open delight.
In it's rare store of literature. Out OF its
own inherency. through this study stands
the fact that the book Of Genesis is body
Of traditions covering, IN general reach.
% the origin Of the world: (2) the be-
ginnings OF history and civilization: (3)
the distribution OF the races OF mankind,
and dealing specifically. through indi-
vidual biography with the beginnings of
the Hebrew race. Part I-for the book
separates in two parts-measures these
traditions. in turn. by the standards or
history, legend. myth. estimating their
historic value and gathering the large
motives out of which these sprang.
Part III, more technical and formal. is
confined to the structure and composition
of the book. it's sources. date and place
of origin, it's plan and divisions with the
evidences of its collective authorship.
III. This is comparative study whose
purpose is to supplement earlier accounts
Solomon. Of David and long important
period OF Judaism each is here made
the subject of an exhaustive parallel ex-
animation. employing Chronicles and
earlier narratives as the instruments OF
this measurement. Out of this compare
tive treatment come new views. and new
points of view. Of these climacterics OF
Hebrew history. An introduction weighs
the book for historic and religious values,
traces IT'S sources and its constructive as
well as time relations TO other parts OF
the Bible narrative OF the history OF
Israel.
johns SONS WONDER-WORKING
PROVIDENCE. Edited by j. Frank
lin Jameson, Phi. D.. LII. D.. Director
of the Department Of Historical Re-
search in the Carnegie Institution
n. To- IL no lee