Stories from the Bible. By Evelyn L. Farrar. (H. Henry
and Co.)—Miss Farrar has here retold the familiar stories of Jacob, King Saul, Elijah, John the Baptist, Peter, and Paul, in a style which, from its simplicity, is sure to be attractive to the children for whom it is intended. She does not moralise over-much, she is uniformly gentle in her judgments, and even her characterisa- tions do not as a rule go much beyond such a description of Peter
as "an eager, bold man, blunt and headstrong, simple as a child, with a loving, tender heart, clinging to Christ with the whole strength of his ardent nature." The illustrations of the stories, which are the work of Mr. Reginald Hallward, have a quaint, cathedral-window look. There is prefixed to this volume an essay on "The Unspeakable Value of Early Lessons in Scripture," by Dean Farrar. It is written in the best style of the Dean, who brings forward a number of witnesses—including Heine, Henan, Ruskin, Cardinal Newman, and Professor Huxley— to prove the incalculable value of the Bible, as in Renan's phrase, "the great book of consolation for humanity."
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