(Dr, Charles) delivered the first of his Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archeology before the Britisa 'Academy at' King's College, Lon don, the subject being the Ap" calypso. Dr. Charles said that a study of Jewish apocalypses and of the Apocalypse itself decided that the Apocalypse dealt with conerete events, and was not symbolical description of the strit" of good and evil..A revival of the of the Apocalypse was lated by Joachim of Floris about 1200 a.p., and was followed by a revival by the Jesuits of the contemporary-historical method. Later came the adoption by Grotius and the Reformers of the philological and the literary-critical methods. This last method assumed the form of the fragmentary hypothesis which furnished the element of permanent value in the litererycritical method.
Much had been achieved of per, manent value, but many problem& had been left unsolved. The chief of these was connected with chapters xx.-xxii. The text of
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