16 AUGUST 1879, Page 26

Scripture Riddles in Verse. By Richard Phillips. (E. W. Allen.)

—A small book, with which the author has taken more pains than such an effort seems to us to deserve. Of course, there is nothing wrong in itself in playing over Scripture history, but we doubt whether intelligent children are the hotter for such a mode of impressing a lesson on their minds ; and if by this means they should learn, by trifling over its historical parts, to regard the whole field of moral and spiritual truth as a play-ground, a serious injury would be done to them. In our own experience, they have eared but little for the pastime hero introchiced ; but the same children can be deeply and, -we think, more suitably interested in the following-out of a great principle, either in the historical or other parts of Scripture.