This Analysis of the Bible is essentially a new work throiigliout, and yet would not have 'been attempted but for the older work out of which it has grown.

Of the two men whose labors have prepared the way for the present undertaking, credit it; due chiefly to Matthew Talbot. He was not a clergyman, nor a Biblical scholar, but a wealthy currier of Leeds, England, who spent the leisure of many years in distributing the verses of the Bible according to their sense, as he could gather it Avith what helps he had, from our autliorized English version.