Opinions of the Press. "We were quite prepared to find in Canon Farrar's St Luke a masterpiece of Biblical criticism and comment, and we are not disappointed by our examination of the volume before us. It reflects very faithfully the learning and critical insight of the Canon's greatest works, his 'Life of Christ' and his 'Life of St Paul, but differs widely from both in the terseness and condensation of its style. What Canon Farrar has evidently aimed at is to place before students as much information as possible within the limits of the smallest possible space, and in this aim he has hit the mark to perfection. It is only fair to say that as a series the 'Cambridge Bible for Schools' has no equal in point of excellence and usefulness, and that Canon Farrar's work is quite the best of the series."-The Examiner. "Canon Farrar's contribution to THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL BIBLE is one of the most valuable yet made. His annotations on The Gospel according to St. Luke, while they display a scholarship at least as sound, and an erudition at least as wide and varied as those of the editors of St. Matthew and St. Mark, are rendered telling and attractive by a more lively imagination, a keener intellectual and spiritual insight, a more incisive and picturesque style. They are marked, in short, by the very qualities most requisite to interest and instruct the class for which this work is designed. His St. Luke is worthy to be ranked with Professor Plumptre's St James, than which no higher commendation can well be given."-The Expositor. "Dr Farrar, in the Cambridge St Luke, has laid us all under great obligation by his masterly marshalling before us of all that is necessary to know concerning the Gospel itself, and in regard to its relation to others. His notes on the verses are critical and full of information, yet concise withal; but his introductory matter is invaluable. In his fourth chapter on "Characteristics of the Gospel," we seem to get into the very heart of the evangelist's purpose, and, after perusal, one sees more clearly than before how wise and beneficent was the Divine plan that gave us the Gospel from more pens than one."-The Sunday School Chronicle. "The Cambridge Bible for Schools. St Luke. Edited by Canon Farrar, D.D. We have received with pleasure this edition of the Gospel by St Luke, by Canon Farrar. It is another instalment of the best school commentary of the Bible we possess. In its general features it does not differ from the previous volumes of the series. Of the expository part of the work we cannot speak too highly. admirable in every way, and contains just the sort of information needed for Students of the English text unable to make use of the original Greek for themselves."-The Nonconformist and Independent. It is "Another instalment of the Cambridge Bible for Schools appears in the Gospel according to St Luke, edited by Canon Farrar. Dr Farrar has written a brief introduction at once lucid and scholarly, in which he summarises what is known as to the origin, and points out the distinctive features of all the four Gospels, presents a sketch of the life of St Luke, discusses the authenticity of his Gospel, describes its characteristics, and furnishes an analysis of it. The chief value of the book to students, however, will consist in the notes, which are exceedingly numerous, and constitute a commentary at once minute, informative, and pervaded by a spirit of true Christian culture. No volume of the series is likely to command more general appreciation than this."—The Scotsman. "No one who has seen Canon Farrar's 'Life of Christ' and 'St Paul,' will doubt us when we say that every page of his 'St Luke' contains useful and suggestive comments. It is intended to issue the whole of the Bible in similar style. We strongly advise our readers to obtain a prospectus of this publication."-The Lay Preacher. "As a handbook to the third gospel, this small work is invaluable. The author has compressed into little space a vast mass of scholarly information. . . The notes are pithy, vigorous, and suggestive, abounding in pertinent illustrations from general literature, and aiding the youngest reader to an intelligent appreciation of the text. A finer contribution to 'The Cambridge Bible for Schools' has not yet been made.”—Baptist Magazine. "Canon Farrar has supplied students of the Gospel with an admirable manual in this volume. It has all that copious variety of illustration, ingenuity of suggestion, and general soundness of interpretation which readers are accustomed to expect from the learned and eloquent editor. Any one who has been accustomed to associate the idea of 'dryness' with a commentary, should go to Canon Farrar's St Luke for a more correct impression. He will find that a commentary may be made interesting in the highest degree, and that without losing anything of its solid value. But, so to speak, it is too good for some of the readers for whom it is intended."-The Spectator. "St Mark, with Notes by the Rev. G. F. Maclear, D.D. Into this small volume Dr Maclear, besides a clear and able Introduction to the Gospel, and the text of St Mark, has compressed many hundreds of valuable and helpful notes. In short, he has given us a capital manual of the kind required-containing all that is needed to illustrate the text, i. e. all that can be drawn from the history, geography, customs, and manners of the time. But as a handbook, giving in a clear and succinct form the information which a lad requires in order to stand an examination in the Gospel, it is admirable... I can very heartily commend it, not only to the senior boys and girls in our High Schools, but also to Sunday-school teachers, who may get from it the very kind of knowledge they often find it hardest to get."-Expositor. The "With the help of a book like this, an intelligent teacher may make 'Divinity' as interesting a lesson as any in the school course. notes are of a kind that will be, for the most part, intelligible to boys of the lower forms of our public schools; but they may be read with greater profit by the fifth and sixth, in conjunction with the original text."-The Academy. "St Mark is edited by Dr Maclear, Head Master of King's College School. It is a very business-like little book. The text is given in paragraphs, and each paragraph has a title, which reappears as a division of the notes. The introduction, which occupies twenty pages, is clear and good, and concludes with an analysis of the book. There are maps and an index....There is a good list of writers who have undertaken other parts of this edition of the Bible, including the editor and his distinguished brothers, Professor Plumptre, Canon Farrar, Dr Moulton, and Mr Sanday." -Contemporary Review. "We welcome with enthusiasm this first fruit of the banding together of eminent divinity students of our Universities under the editorship of Dr Perowne, and are not sorry that it represents the labours of so experienced a scholar and teacher as Dr Maclear, upon the Gospel of St Mark. We gather from it an earnest of the handy and compact arrangement to be looked for in the contents of the volumes to follow, the ordering of the requisite introductory matter, the conciseness yet sufficiency of the notes to the text, the fullness of the general index, and the discreet choice of that of special words and phrases."-English Churchman. "The Gospel according to St Matthew, by the Rev. A. Carr. This valuable series of school books is under the editorship of Professor Perowne, and is doing a great and thorough educational work in our schools. The volume before us condenses in the smallest possible space the best results of the best commentators on St Matthew's Gospel. The introduction is able, scholarly, and eminently practical, as it bears on the authorship and contents of the Gospel, and the original form in which it is supposed to have been written. It is well illustrated by two excellent maps of the Holy Land and of the Sea of Galilee."English Churchman. "The Book of Joshua. Edited by G. F. Maclear, D.D. We have the first instalment of what we have long desiderated, a School Commentary on the books of Scripture. If we may judge of the work contemplated by the sample before us it has our heartiest commendation. With Dr J. J. S. Perowne for General Editor and an eminent list of well-known Biblical scholars as contributors, we have the highest guarantee that the work will be completed in a scholarly, useful, and reliable form. The introductory chapter of the present volume on the life, character, and work of Joshua is ably and attractively written.... The 'notes' will be found brief, terse, pointed, and suggestive. The historical illustrations are apposite and felicitous. The maps and geographical explanations are accurate and valuable. The book ought to be in the hands of every teacher, and even clergymen will find it a valuable accession to their list of commentaries. We await the issue of the remaining volumes with interest."-Weekly Review. "A very important work in the nature of a Scriptural text-book for the use of students has been undertaken by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press-namely, the separate issue of the several books of the Bible, each edited and annotated by some Biblical scholar of high reputation.... The value of the work as an aid to Biblical study, not merely in schools but among people of all classes who are desirous to have intelligent knowledge of the Scriptures, cannot easily be overestimated."-The Scotsman. |