distinct personality? The more I have studied this rhapsody the more I have become convinced that we have in this case a real literary obscurity. Theology may on independent grounds argue for or against the identification; but, so far as regards the simple analysis of the literature, the question must be left unsolved, and the personality of the sixth Vision described simply by the name, 'The Redeemer.'

I have thus briefly reviewed the main thought in the Biblical Book of Isaiah, and the literary forms by which that thought is brought home to the imagination and heart. Even in literary form the world has produced nothing greater than Isaiah; and the very difficulty of determining its literary form is so much evidence how cramped and imperfect literary criticism has been made by the confinement of its outlook to the single type of literature which has come to monopolise the name 'classical.' But when we proceed to the matter and thought of Isaiah - the literary matter, quite apart from the theology founded on it how can we explain the neglect of such a masterpiece in our plans of liberal education? It is the boast of England and America that its higher education is religious in its spirit: why is it then that our youth are taught to associate exquisiteness of expression, force of presentation, brilliance of imaginative picturing, only with literatures in which the prevailing matter and thought is on a low moral plane? Such a paradox is part of the paganism

which came in with the Renaissance, and which our higher education is still too conservative to shake off. The friends of literary education who rebel against the thought of so one-sided a culture have a definite issue to contend for: that at least Isaiah and Job should take their place beside Plato and Homer in the curricula of our colleges and schools.

The text throughout the series is that of the Revised Version, including the marginal alternatives: for the use of it I express my obligation to the University Presses of Oxford and Cambridge. A Reference Table at the end connects the arrangement in this volume with the Chapters and Verses of the Bible.

The volume contains the usual notes on detailed passages. At the commencement of the Notes (page 213) will be found discussions of important points in the style of Isaiah or the principles underlying the present arrangement of the text, which the reader would do well to consult before otherwise using the book.

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