In treating the history of the Reformation, I am especially indebted to the material gathered by Dr. Preserved Smith under the title, ‘A Decade of Luther Study,’ in this Review for April, 1921 (pp. 107–135). This enables me to be brief in dealing with the general literature of the subject, but as Dr. Smith in many cases gave only references without comment, and as he was not able to include the Scandinavian literature, at least a few works of special value must be noted here.

The enigma of the world is the existence of evil or imperfection. Though a deeper insight discloses relative perfection, yet the relative perfection of finite things discloses imperfection. If good of the kind, yet the kind is bad. There is no compliment more distasteful than to be told that one is good of his kind, for it implies that the kind may be bad.

While it is obvious that the world, as a whole, is under the sway of one principle, yet the problem is how can a perfect being originate and sustain a world of imperfect beings, endowed with the capacity to develop towards perfection, and likewise with the capacity to resist such development?

Sir James George Frazer is a well known authority on the subject he has made his own, and his voluminous works are familiar to every student of anthropology and the history of religions. The fact that he has put his extensive knowledge at the disposition of the Old Testament student is to be welcomed. This he has done in the works mentioned below, the larger one in three volumes, the smaller one by condensation and omission giving the main points of interest. That the larger work meets a felt want is indicated by the fact that a second printing was called for the year after the first publication, a symptom of the present interest in the comparative study of religions.

In the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. XV, 1909, pp. 259 f., and again in my essay entitled ‘The Translations made from the Original Aramaic Gospels,’ in the Studies in the History of Religions presented to Crawford Howell Toy, 1912, pp. 290–292, I attempted to show that the curious phrase εἰς πόλιν Ἰούδα in Luke i.

Eberhard Nestle's Einfūhrung in das Griechische Neue Testament, vierte Auflage, vōllig umgearbeitet von Ernst von Dobschütz. Mit 20 Handschriftentafeln. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Rupreeht, 1923.