11 APRIL 1903, Page 25

Stories from the Old, Old Bible. By L. T. Meade.

(G. Newnes. 7s. 6d. net.)—Here the Bible characters tell their own stories. The idea is new, at least in this connection, a little, or more than a little, audacious, and not, we think, quite satisfactory in its working out. This is the conclusion of Eve's narrative of how she ate the forbidden fruit, and gave of it to her husband:— "Just at that moment a streak of forked lightning tore the centre of the cloud. It lit up the Garden with unearthly beauty, and in the intensity of this light the lie that I had hugged to my heart vanished like smoke." Is this an improvement on Genesis P