The Old Testament : its Meaning and Value for the
Church To-day. By R. 11. Malden, Acting Chaplain, R.N. (Macmillan. 6s.)—This is eminently a book to be recommended to teachers who arc alive to the importance of preparing their pupils to face themany questions, historical, moral, and critical, which are in the air of our generation. It is nothing short
of a Scandal that the Bible lessons given in our primary and secondary schools should be in substance what they were fifty years ago. Yet, with few exceptions, they are so. And the same must be said of sermons ; the intellectual cowardice of the pulpit has as its corollary the emptiness of the pow. One of the best results of the war has been that their experience of working among men in the Services has roused ohaplains of the better type to the importance of freedom of speech in these matters. " Doth God," asks the prophet in sombre irony, "need your lie ? " Mr. Maiden's excellent book was written, he tells us, "on board one of H.M. ships at sea." Its temper is at once candid and reverent : and it is greatly to be desired, difficult as the work would be, that a scholar equally gifted should deal with the New Testament as ho has dealt with the Old.
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