The readers of this volume may be glad to know a little more of its author. A native of Württemberg, he was educated at the Gymnasium of Stuttgart and then at the Theological Seminary of Blaubeuren, the latter being one of the four old cloister schools of Württemberg, in which, far from the distractions of large towns, a thorough philological training is provided for the future clergy of that kingdom. It was as “Praeceptor” of one of these schools that Albrecht Bengel, that great textual critic and unaffectedly pious man, spent the best part of his life, and in his _Marginalien und Materialien_ Dr. Nestle gives an interesting account of Bengel as a scholar, and describes the studies of the school over which he presided. Our author studied divinity and oriental languages at the Universities of Tübingen and Leipzig, and considers it one of the happy dispensations of his life that he was permitted to live in England for two years, working in the British Museum and preaching to German congregations in London. He was then Repetent or Tutor at the Theological Seminary of Tübingen, and, after a short period of work as a preacher, was called to the Gymnasium of Ulm to teach Greek, German, Hebrew, and Religion. For two years he filled the vacant professorship of Semitic languages at the University of Tübingen, but, not being appointed to the chair, he returned to Ulm. From there he moved to the Seminary at Maulbronn, which offered better opportunities for combined philological and theological studies. Dr. Nestle’s principal works are:—_Die israelitischen Eigennamen nach ihrer religionsgeschichtlichen Bedeutung_ (Proper Names in Israel: their significance for the history of religion), the Prize Essay of the Leiden Tyler Society, 1876. An earlier Prize Essay at Tübingen on the Septuagint and Massorah of Ezekiel was also successful, but was not published. _Psalterium Tetraglottum_ (_Graece_, _Syriace_, _Chaldaice_, _Latine_), 1879. Sixth and Seventh Editions of Tischendorf’s _Septuagint_ (with new collation of Codices Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and Alexandrinus) 1880, 1887. _Septuagintastudien_, i.-iii., 1886, 1896, 1898. _Syriac Grammar_ (Latin, 1881; German, 1888; English, 1889). _Novi Testamenti Graeci Supplementum_, 1896 (Collation of Codex Bezae: Apocryphal Gospels). _Philologica Sacra_, 1896. Minor publications collected in _Marginalien und Materialien_, 1893. Edition of the _Greek New Testament_ for the Stuttgart Bible Society, 1898, of which a third edition is now in preparation. Numerous contributions to theological and literary Journals (_Jahrbücher für deutsche Theologie_, _Studien und Kritiken_, _Theologische Literaturzeitung_, _Literarisches Centralblatt_) and to Herzog-Hauck, _Encyklopädie für Protestantische Theologie_.