5 MAY 1917, Page 17

The Religious Tract Society issues a very well-printed pocket edition

in French, according to the Synodal version, of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles (Is. net). We do not care much for the coloured pictures of Mr. Copping, but the simple footnotes are useful. Ordinary folk would read their Bibles more often if they could easily procure such cheap and attractive editions as this. The type is large and clear, and the text is broken up into para- graphs as in any other book, and not into the short verses which, though hallowed to some extent by a tradition of several centuries, are disconcerting to the modern reader.