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: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THE pathway of the student of Calvin's life and writings and of the literature which has to do with him has been made easy by several elaborate bibliographies. Best of all is that prepared by the late Alfred Erichson, the most recent editor of Calvin's Works, for the concluding volume of the series,1 and also issued separately in convenient and revised form as Bibliographia Cahrini- ana? A useful list is that given in the second volume of The Cambridge Modern History.3 Older, and therefore less valuable, but with brief critical estimates of the worth of the several authors cited, is that of Philip Schaff in the seventh volume of his History of the Christtan Church. All earlier collections of Calvin's Works, as a whole, have been superseded by the noble edition, Joannis Calvini Opera quae supersunl omnia, begun in 1863 and completed in fifty- nine volumes in 1goo,5 under the able editorship of the Strass- burg scholars, Johann Wilhelrri Baum, Edouard Cunitz, Edouard Reuss, Paul Lobstein, Alfred Erichson, and their associates. This series includes in volumes i.-xa. Calvin's theological treatises; in volumes xb.-xx. letters by Calvin and relating to him; in volumes xxiii.-lv. his homiletical andexegetical works. This edition is cited as the Opera in the notes of the present volume. ' Opera, lix. 462-586. He died April 12, 1901. 1 Berlin, 1900. 3 Pp. 779-783, London and New York, 1904. Pp. 223-231, 681-686, New York, 1892. s Braunschweig. They constitute volumes xxix.-lxxxvii. of the Corpus Reformatorum. A sketch of the execution of the task, by Erichson, is given in the Bulletin de la societe du Protestantisme fran- fais, xlix. 613 (1900). The correspondence contained in the Opera is supplemented by the carefully annotated series of Corre...