Small 18mo. Cloth extra, 50 cents each; Leather, 60 cents. The Modern Reader's Bible. A Series of Books from the Sacred Scriptures, BY RICHARD G. MOULTON, M.A. (Camb.), Ph.D. (Penn.), Professor of Literature in English in the University of Chicago. From THE OUTLOOK. -- The purpose of this series is well expressed in its general title, "The Modern Reader's Bible: A Series of Works from the Sacred Scriptures presented in Modern Literary Form." The earlier work is a comment upon and exposition of the literary quality and form of the Bible; these volumes present the Bible in the literary forms which, in the judgment of the editor, it ought to wear. The effect of these changes back to the original poems under which the sacred writings first appeared will be, for the vast majority of readers, a surprise and delight; they will feel as if they had come upon new spiritual and intellectual treasures, and they will appreciate for the first time how much the Bible has suffered from the hands of those who have treated it without reference to its literary quality. In view of the significance and possible results of Professor Moulton's undertaking, it is not too much to pronounce it one of the most important spiritual and literary events of the times. It is part of the renaissance of Biblical study; but it may mean, and in our judgment it does mean, the renewal of a fresh and deep impression of the beauty and power of the supreme spiritual writing of the world. . . . Each volume contains a very valuable introductory study of the book presented as a piece of literature; and this series of essays, summing up the results of Professor Moulton's long study, form a contribution of no small importance to the literature relating to the Bible. Each volume is also furnished with notes. The text used throughout the series is that of the Revised Version, the marginal readings being usually preferred. The order in which it is proposed to issue the volumes is as follows: WISDOM SERIES THE PROVERBS IN FOUR VOLUMES A Miscellany of Sayings and Poems embodying Isolated Observations of Life. ECCLESIASTICUS Ready A Miscellany including longer compositions, still embodying only Isolated Observations of Life. ECCLESIASTES-WISDOM OF SOLOMON Ready Each is a Series of Connected Writings embodying, from different standpoints, a Solution of the Whole Mystery of Life. THE BOOK OF JOB Ready A Dramatic Poem in which are embodied Varying Solutions of the Mystery of Life. Ready DEUTERONOMY The Orations and Songs of Moses, constituting his Farewell to the People of Israel. BIBLICAL IDYLS Ready The Lyric Idyl of Solomon's Song, and the Epic Idyls of Ruth, GENESIS HISTORY SERIES IN FIVE VOLUMES Ready Bible History, Part I: Formation of the Chosen Nation. Reaay Bible History, Part II: Migration of the Chosen Nation to the Land of Promise. — Book of Exodus, with Leviticus and Numbers. THE JUDGES Ready Bible History, Part III: The Chosen Nation in its Efforts towards Secular Government.- Books of Joshua, Judges, I Samuel. THE KINGS Ready Bible History, Part IV: The Chosen Nation under a Secular THE CHRONICLES Ecclesiastical History of the Chosen Nation. Ready PROPHECY SERIES ISAIAH IN FOUR VOLUMES EZEKIEL THE MINOR PROPHETS Announcements as to further issues will be made from time to time. Send fifty cents for a copy of any volume now ready, and give it a careful examination. Its convenient size and exceptionally attractive form will lead you to subscribe for the entire series. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. EDITED BY DR. RICHARD G. MOULTON, University of Chicago. Single volumes, cloth, 50 cents each; leather, 60 cents each. Rev. Dr. LYMAN ABBOTT, Editor-in-Chief of the OUTLOOK, writes: "I had intended to write to Professor Moulton, congratulating him on this work. It may almost be said that he has inaugurated a new epoch in Bible study. The scholars have been telling us for some years that the Bible is literature. Particular passages of beauty in it have been pointed out, and some single books, such as Job and the Song of Songs, have been put in literary form and given a literary interpretation by special writers. But Professor Moulton is the first one, so far as I know, to deal with the whole Bible as a collection of literature, to discriminate between literary study and historico-critical study, and to present the results of the former in such a form as to render them available to the ordinary English reader. The low price of the little volumes puts them within the reach of the great majority of American households, and I look for a large increase of interest in the Bible, for a much better understanding of its general spirit and teaching, and especially for an increased appreciation of its inspirational power, from the publication of the Modern Reader's Bible." THE MODERN READER'S BIBLE ures.... Godey's The world has waited over long for this treatment of the ScriptThe books gathered into the Old Testament constitute by far the most important part of the Bible (from a literary point of view), and they make up a body of work whose breadth and depth and height are hardly rivalled, certainly not surpassed, in the whole worldliterature. The purpose of Dr. Moulton's series is just this exposition of the strictly literary value of the Scriptures. . . . His book has the definite aim of supplying what the common editions of the Bible do not furnish. THE WISDOM SERIES This first volume is ample evidence that the whole series will prove of capital importance. Professor MoulThe Evangelist, ton's Introduction discusses the Wisdom LiteraNew York. ture, the principles underlying it, the progress of thought found in the four works, Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom of Solomon, which will form the first series of the Modern Reader's Bible, and then proceeds to an admirable introductory study of the first of the series. "The Wisdom Series' does not treat the points of the text critically, but in a literary way, to bring out the Methodist Maga- larger and deeper meanings. They are printed zine and Review. so as to show the poetical forms that are more characteristic of modern poetry. PROVERBS A suggestive and valuable arrangement of the Book of Proverbs. . . . As the Proverbs have looked out upon us from these pages, they have seemed to take on new force and point. |