Every attempt, undertaken in a reverential spirit, to facilitate the labours of the inquirer after Scripture truth, deserves especial favour at the hands of those who may have the opportunity of directing public attention to such endeavours. _The Emphatic New Testament, according to the Authorized Version, compared with the various Readings of the Vatican Manuscripts. The Four Gospels. Edited, with an Introductory Essay on Greek Emphasis_, by John Taylor; which is an attempt to represent to the English reader certain peculiarities in the Greek text, is a work of this class, and therefore, without entering into any minute detail of the manner in which Mr. Taylor carries out his endeavour, we will let him speak for himself on the subject of its results. "If any one were known," says Mr. Taylor "to be in possession of a copy of the Greek Testament so marked by its inspired writers as they would wish to have it read; and if the system of notation, when applied to the English translation, were found to be {550} equally efficacious in conferring distinction on the corresponding words in that language, should we not deem it a great treasure, and be eager to obtain a _marked copy_, esteeming it next to hearing the words in the tone adopted by Our Lord and His Apostles? Yet something of this kind is offered to our notice in the present work; without altering the expression, it often makes the meaning clearer; it adds certainty to many readings, which before could only be founded on conjecture; and it may altogether be considered as a kind of running commentary of no less authority than the original text." We have received the first Part of Mr. Akerman's _Remains of Pagan Saxondom_, which contains engravings of some beautiful _Personal Ornaments from a Barrow near Devizes_; _of a Gold Buckle found at Ickworth, Suffolk_; and of the curious _Glass Vase found at Reculver_, now preserved in the Canterbury Museum. The price of the Part, half-a-crown to subscribers, is apparently a high one; but it must be remembered that all the objects are represented of their natural size, so that the plates become in some measure a substitute for the antiquities themselves. The Society of Antiquaries having, on the ballot taken on Thursday week, adopted the proposal to return to the old rate of subscription, we can only hope that all parties--those who so strenuously and honestly advocated the measure, and those who as strenuously and as honestly opposed it--will now meet on the common principle by which both were actuated, a desire to promote the well-being of the Society, and co-operate in bringing forward those judicious reforms, without which the present step would only be delusion.