Some Books of the Week
Miss Streatfeild does well to tell the Stories of the Apostles and Evangelists (Mowbrays, 4s. (id.) in the English of Tyndale. As the Bishop of Kensington says in his preface, she has
collected the passages with an admirable discretion. and has made a running narrative in the actual words of the Bible, which give vivid pictures of personalities with simplicity and accuracy." The book is for children, and one of the best of its kind, but many adults will read it with pleasure also, for Miss Streatfeild is an artist in words : the task needed an artist. Selection, simplicity and continuity are no easy qualities to achieve. We wish we could give this book a longer notice, so thoroughly commendable is it, both in aim and accom- plishment ; we must, however, content ourselves by repeating that it is one of the best of children's books. Every parent who would give religious instruction will find beautiful material here.
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