12 OCTOBER 1889, Page 40

Stepping - Stones to Bible History. By Annie R. Butler. I. "Stories

from Genesis." (Religious Tract Society.)—It strikes us that these stories are too elaborately simple in style. Children so young that they cannot understand anything more difficult are best approached, we should think, in the language that naturally occurs to a mother or teacher reproducing in her own words the original narrative. Still, we can imagine the book being in- directly useful. It might well furnish hints as to how these things may be accommodated to young minds.