25 JANUARY 1902, Page 9

SOME THEOLOGICAL BOOKS.

Neglected People of the Bible. By Dinsdale T. Young, (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—These sermons contain some eloquence and a great deal of shrewd humour and sound common- sense. The author has a happy knack of characterisation, and even the subordinate personalities of the Scriptures seem to live before him. The character, for instance, of Barnabas, " the son of consolation," who "having land sold it and brought the money and laid it at the Apostles' feet," is admirably portrayed. So are certain Old Testament persons, notably Laban the Syrian. The whole book emphasises the fact of the wonderful truth to Nature of even the slighter and less perfect sketches of men preserved for the world in the Bible.