The Theological Review Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Thothmes III.) remained to the very day on which he wrote,-f- and that the breast-plate and the sardonyx stones to which the rationale was attached J ceased to s... more »hine two hundred years before the commencement of his work,§ that is to say, on the death of John Hyrcanus. If to imagine facts be unphilosophical, what is the case when the imagination is contradicted by history ? If the pursuit of truth have any guiding principle, it is rather to the literature and the Law of Judea, that we must look for light on Jewish habit, Jewish opinion, and books written by Jewish pens, than to the most brilliant or most orthodox speculations, that ignore the existence of the great monuments of the literary activity of fifteen hundred years of historj'. Francis Eoubiliac Condeb. VI.—DR. ROWLAND WILLIAMS. TIi e Life and Letters of Eowland Williams, D.D.; mth Extracts from his Note-books. Edited by his Wife. 2 vols. London: Henry S. King and Co. 1874. In these days of superabundant literary affluence, it is only a very rare combination of circumstances that can be held to justify a lengthened biography. The subject of it must have moved in the first rank of religious or political or scientific thought: he must have exercised a preponderating influence on his contemporaries: the story of his life must be in a considerable measure the history of his times : it should be of very necessity an elaborate historical painting rather than a mere carte de visite. It is no doubt true that " there is a book in every man ;" but even if it could be extracted and set down in black and white, it would be hard to compel us to read even a millionth part of such a literally " Universal Biography." There is, indeed, something melancholy in the reflectiQn that, as the world grows older, the vacant niches in t...« less