3 JANUARY 1891, Page 31

The Church Catechism. With Notes by "E. M." Illustrated. (S.P.C.K.)—A

very pretty and convenient little edition, with good pictures, though we should have preferred that those, as of' "Baptism" and "The Lord's Supper," which are connected with the life of to-day, should have boon less archaic in costume. Why should we not have mon and women in ordinary village dress This admits of artistic treatment. What we have here is a little " stagey."—When Jesus was here among Men, by E. M. Water- worth (Religious Tract Society), is a Life of Christ, short, and told in simple words.