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“Nothing could be more comprehensive; and it is difficult to see how the scheme could be improved. To say this is not to assert that absolute perfection has been attained. That is beyond human power; and, as Professor Gayley frankly confesses, ‘the citation of references is nowhere as complete as the compilers could wish.’ The index, it may be well to note, is ample and excellent.” Brander Matthews
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GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN. Guidebook to the Biblical literature. $2.50 Ginn 220
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“The Bible as a literature, as a library, and as a book—that is how the point of view is stated at the beginning of this treatise, which offers systematic guidance to the study of the growth of the Bible, the historical development of the Hebrew mind, the particular tendencies and needs of the successive eras represented in Biblical literature and the particular genius of the writers, and the spiritual nature of their message.”—Ath