desire to impart to their children an intelligent knowledge of the real nature of these books, which have filled all along, and still fill, so prominent a part in the religious education of the race” (Colenso, p. vii.). The most important result of biblical scholarship he wished to impart was the “death blow” struck by Pentateuchal criticism to the whole sacerdotal system presented in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. This ritualistic system, Colenso argues, which J. Wellhausen had claimed