27 APRIL 1912, Page 14

Readings frani the Bible Apocrypha. Selected and arranged by Edith

Mary Ecroyd. (H. Frowde. 2s. net.)—Many persons must have felt that the lectionary, oven after the last revision, left much that was unsatisfying at least for purposes of private or family devotion. What father of a family would like to read to a family of children and servants the graphic description in the proverbs of the ways of a harlot ? Here we have a well-ohosen selection, great passages of prayer, meditation, and praise from which the compiler has not scrupled to omit all unedifying verses.