Commenting and Commentaries Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REMARKS UPON THE LIST OF COM- MENTARIES. This List is compiled for the use of ministers of average attainments, and the brief reviews are -written from that ... more »stand-point. Other useful lists have been published, specially those by Darling, Orme, and Hartwell Horae, but these are not easily procurable, and are not quite what is needed ; and therefore as the furnishing of the Pastor's College Library necessitated a Catalogue, and afforded an opportunity for purchasing books, the present work has been produced. Few can conceive tho amount of toil which this compilation has involved, both to myself and my industrious amanuensis, Mr. J. L. Keys. In almost every case the books have been actually examined by myself, and my opinion, whatever it may be worth, is an original one. A complete list of all comments has not been attempted. Numbers of volumes have been left out because they were not easily procurable, or were judged to be worthless, although some of both these classes have been admitted as specimens, or as warnings. The titles have been abbreviated to gain space, but it is believed that in every case they are full enough for recognition. The prices, which relate to second-hand books, have been placed as proximate valuations, and have either been taken from actual invoices, and catalogues, or have been kindly filled in by the aid of various booksellers, to whom we tender our thanks for the REMARKS UPON THE LIST OF COMMENTARIES. 61 kindly interest they have taken in this work. Prices vary according to the condition of the book, the binding, the ever-changing demand, and the booksellers' mode of trade. The abbreviation S stands for second-hand. That mark is not inserted where the date is remote, and where the price can only refer to second-hand copies, since there are no ...« less