The Questions of the Bible. Compiled by W. Carnelley. (T.
Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Carnelley has here put together, with references to chapter and verse, all the questions—that is, sentences put in the interrogative form—that occur in the Bible. A book of this sort reminds one of the kind of study which the Jews were accustomed to give to their sacred books, taking in such details as the number of letters, the middle letter, (Sze. Dr. S. G. Green writes a, com- mendatory preface, in which he suggests that the book may be useful "for family Bible-readings or Bible-classes," and he gives a list of twelve questions, with the remark that any reader who can, without hesitation, turn to these twelve passages may be assumed to have a fair knowledge of Scripture. We wonder whether any of our readers could say off-hand what book of the Old Testament contains no questions.. There is one such book ; in the New Testament there are four.
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