The Children's Sing. By Annie R. Butler. (R.T.S. 2s. 6d.)—
This book, to describe it briefly, is a child's Life of Christ. Few tasks are more difficult than to tell the story with anything like completeness, or to express the deeper truths in language :of sufficient simplicity. And if this is a hard thing to do, it is any- thing but easy to say whether it has been done with success. We should like to know whether it would actually rouse the interest of an averagely intelligent child. Our impression is that the thing is well done, and that the teacher or parent look- ing about for such a handbook to use with younger children, or to put into the hands of elder, might try this with a very fair hope of success. It would have been well to give a sort of out- line map of the country to be traversed. A brief statement of the periods in Christ's ministry would be useful. It joins the story together, and makes it more intelligible and more easy to remember.
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