18 NOVEMBER 1911, Page 39

Old Testament Stories in Modern Light. By T. Rhondda Williams.

(J. Clarke and Co. ls. 6d. net.)—We entirely approve of applying the principle of a progressive morality to the Old Testament stories. Still there are limits. Mr. Williams seems to go beyond them 'when he deals with the story of Rehab. "She did a very mean thing," we are told. But she is included in the list of heroes in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Probably Jeremiah seemed to be -very base to his contemporaries when he counselled submission to the Chaldean besiegers.