Longer examinations of this important matter are doubtless impending, with all the interest attaching to them and the judgements involved: but I beg now to offer my acknowledgements for all the words of encouragement that have been uttered.
Something however must be said in reply to an attack made in the _Guardian_ newspaper on May 20, because it represents in the main the position occupied by some members of an existing School.

I do not linger over an offhand stricture upon my 'adhesion to the extravagant claim of a second-century origin for the Peshitto,' because I am content with the companionship of some of the very first Syriac scholars, and with the teaching given in an unanswered article in the _Church Quarterly Review_ for April, 1895.

Nor except in passing do I remark upon a fanciful censure of my account of the use of papyrus in MSS.

before the tenth century--as to which the reviewer is evidently not versed in information recently collected, and described for example in Sir E.Maunde Thompson's Greek and Latin Palaeography, or in Mr.F.G.

Kenyon's Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, and in an article in the just mentioned Review which appeared in October, 1894.