Those portions of the work which depend on the apparatus crz'tz'cas of Holmes and Parsons must especially be regarded as provisional (see pp. 131, The writer shares the gratification which all Biblical students feel at the prospect of a new critical edition of the Septuagint being undertaken by members of the great school of Cam bridge scholars which has already done work of exceptional importance in the criticism Of the New Testament and he looks forward to the time when it will be possible to studyvi preface.