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Rh mation" (third volume of "Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte," by W. Moeller), but also through the great number of his instructive articles on the different characters of the Reformation in Hauck's "Real-Enzyklopaedie," and through his far-reaching collaboration in the Luther edition of Weimar. Because the German letters of Luther, which had been taken into "Luther's Korrespondenz" (Luther edition of Erlangen, volumes 53-56), could not be included again in this work, and because the first volumes of "Luther's Korrespondenz," notwithstanding its many supplements, are nevertheless incomplete, it will devolve upon the Weimar edition to offer a final edition of Luther's letters.

In the meantime, alongside of the endeavors of Enders and Kawerau, the 21st volume of the St. Louis Luther edition (St. Louis, Mo., 1903-1904) with its German translation of the Latin by A. F. Hoppe, renders satisfactory service. By dint of Enders and Kawerau there appeared "Luther's Correspondence and other contemporary letters" translated and edited by Preserved Smith (volume I, 1507-1521, Philadelphia, 1913), who had already in his "Life and Letters of Martin Luther" (1911) 30 letters of Luther translated into English. The readers will in all likelihood be acquainted with "Letters of Martin Luther," by Margaret A. Currie, published in New York in 1908. Professor Dau, of St. Louis, has also translated a number of Luther letters for the Theological Quarterly, of which he is editor. Without much merit are T. H. Lachmann's "Technische Studien zu Luther's Briefen an Friederich den Weisen" (Leipzig, Voightlaender, 1913).

Much has been done in our period in the way of uncovering the table-talk of Luther. Before 1883 there existed