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Nothing could be better suited to its purpose than the

little volume of Two Minute Bible Readings which two anonymous % tudents have compiled for use in opening school or in hospital wards and homes (Student Christian Movement, 3s.). Many of the passages are taken direct-from the Authorized Version, while others are abridged without alteration. Nearly half the book is rightly given to the Gospels and the sayings of Christ ; the selections from the Old Testament narratives are comparatively few, but the Prophetic books and the Psalms supply a fourth of the extracts. A Consultative Committee of the Board of Education has lately considered this important question of Bible reading. It would, we think, approv of this useful little book.

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