Ecce Ancilla Domini. By Elizabeth Rundle Charles. (S.P.C.K.) —Mrs. Charles
has put together in this little volume a number of "Studies in the Christian Ideal of Womanhood," suggested by the notices which the Evangelists have left us of "Mary the Mother of the Lord." She gives us some valuable hints of the interpretative kind, as when she suggests that the benediction of Elizabeth to Mary, "Blessed is she that believeth," "seems to imply a tender, regretful allusion to the doubt which had marred the angel's promise to her husband," and notes that the word " Blessed " in this benediction is not the same as that used by Gabriel. "It is the blessing of the Beatitudes." For the most part, the studies are reflective and devotional. In both respects, they are rich in thought and feeling. The book is of really excel- lent quality.
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