1 SEPTEMBER 1888, Page 24

Bible Lessons on Joshua and Judges, by the Rev. I.

Gurney Hoare, M.A. (Nisbet and Co.), are really a series of embryo. sermons of considerable ingenuity and some freshness on the his- torical facts of the two books mentioned on the title-page. Their purpose is didactic and dogmatic, and does not at all aim at

treating the two books as portions of historical narrative, out of which arise certain interesting questions on the polity, national growth, and development of Israel, or matters of exegesis and use of the critical faculty. Bible lessons, in the pedagogic sense of the term, they are not. Doubtless Sunday-school teachers and lay mission-preachers will find them useful, and there is an old- divinity flavour about them that will prove acceptable to some palates.