With re-

jard to the fact that lie (Dr Pusey), though Itegiua Professor of Hebrew, has not itteuipfed to juiawer the work on the

Pentateuch, ho say.", that Dr Colciiko looks upon that work with a parent's eye ; but as ho forma a different estimate of it, ho had not seen the noccKsily of ansivcr-

ing it. He uddu :—" I did go carefully through the first yuirt of it with tho.iu members of the University who liked to bo present at the discussion, but I had often to apologise to them for occupying them with such objections. I thought it more useful to answer tho pseudo cri'.icimns on the DooV of Daniel (becatiHO, a;i 1 said, the rati/Jiialisfs held UieJjj to bo

their greatest achievements), ami to 1/i.ive tiio refutation of Dv Colenso's Look to others." Dr Poesy coza not at all regret that tlw Speaker's Commentary lias koS been published with the rapidity origin ally intended, for with such rapidity the work could not have been solid. As to Dr (Jolcnso'a inference that. " it hats been found hopeless to maintain the- old tradi tions in the faco «f all educated Europe," nothing could be lass justified. " Forty two years," ho says, " libvo now elapsed since I becamo acquainted with rar tioiuilist criticism, I *tn ncqtuiintcd with every notable book which ha» been written on tho Old TcctfimoiJt; ar.tl my convic tion in Vn:d every solid Hduit;on to our knowledge tends to tho inriintejuma: of the old trntliH, and that ' educated Europe'— jirovitled tlijit ftwcli <<£ it ;»3 in not converted be ctrtirwtcd io t'sc true belief sa to Al iiitghty God—will come io ncknovrledge those old■truthn. I make this limitation iveeatisG kb io«|j jvs any part of ' educated Europe' disbclicvt-ain mhaulci or prophecy npomi priori grisiliiua, it v,*ould bodelu sivc to think that juftro sdcniilk proof could Mprooit mvk pr«j»Hlicea 3 or do iljc work 'oi'thit Spirit of o<jd," ," '

LYNCHING IN MAINE.
