business life (being written on the margin of a copy of "Bagster's Comprehensive Bible "), and were completed some years since. Although, as stated above, they do not appear to have been designed for use beyond the circle of the author's family and friends, yet, with his usual care and precision, they were left in so complete a form that it is hoped the work will not suffer materially for want of his final revision.

Consisting, as many of the Notes do, of extracts from the works ́of eminent critics—and these quoted frequently in a condensed form —it is believed that a large amount of valuable information will be found in a small compass, affording to the thou ghtful Christian mind matter for profitable reflection, as well as a stimulus to further research among the treasures of this portion of the Sacred volume.

12th month, 1866.

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89. Seventh line from bottom, for collected, read collated.

345. Eleventh line from top, for epanedos, read epanodos.

410. Tenth line from bottom, for Thir, read Their.

THE BOOK OF PRAISES.

In addition to Commentaries on the Scriptures generally, the following works on the Psalms exclusively are quoted or referred to in the subjoined Observations and Notes, under the names, simply, of their respective Authors:- "The Psalms in Hebrew, with a Critical, Exegetical, and Philological Commentary, by the Rev. G. Phillips, B.D." Two vols. 8vo., 1846. "Commentary on the Psalms, by E. W. Hengstenberg, Dr. and Professor of Theology in Berlin: translated from the German by Fairbairn and Thomson." Three vols. 8vo., 1845-8. This excellent work forms a portion of the valuable series comprised in Clark's Foreign Theological Library. A Literal Translation of the Book of Psalms, intended to illustrate their Poetical and Moral Structure: with Dissertations on the word Selah, and on the Authorship, Order, Titles, and Poetical Features of the Psalms, by the Rev. John Jebb, M.A." (son, I presume, of Bishop Jebb, the Author of "Sacred Literature.") Two vols., 8vo., 1846. "The Book of Psalms, translated from the Hebrew, with Notes Explanatory and Critical, by Samuel Horsley, LL.D., late Bishop of St. Asaph." Two vols., 8vo., 1818. "Commentary on the Psalms, by Bishop Horne."

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