18 SEPTEMBER 1897, Page 23

The Pilgrimage of the Ben Beriah. By Charlotte M. Yonge.

(Macmillan and Co.)—Miss Yonge shows no little of her wonted skill in filling up with imaginary figures the outlined story which we have in Exodus. Thera are the believers and the sceptical and they play their proper parts in the various scenes described in the sacred record. We cannot say that we wholly admire this kind of writing, but it has its attractions, and doubtless its uses, nor could we wish to see it in safer and more able hands than Miss Yonge's