LESSONS FROM THE APOCRYPHA.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —A correspondent of the Spectator last week writes as if the new Table of Lessons (which the Government is pledged to carry into law this session) excluded the whole Apocrypha, and he makes various excellent remarks on the importance of reading the Books of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, the Song of the Three Children, Tobit, and Judith.
It may be worth while to remind him that of these books it is only the toco last are excluded from the new Table of Les- sons. The " Song of the Three Children " is not in the existing Table, and therefore not in the new one, being suffi- ciently provided for by its insertion amongst the Canticles to be recited in the Prayer-Book. There is much, no doubt, to be said for Tobit and Judith as studies of Jewish life ; but, perhaps, if your correspondent were to endeavour to make a selection of public lessons to be read from either book, he would acquiesce in the relegation of them to private perusal. The best parts of Wisdom, Ecelesiasticus, and Baruch are still to be read.—I am,
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