5 NOVEMBER 1910, Page 57

The Girls of the Bible. By Florence Bone. (The Pilgrim

Press. 2s. Gd. net.)—We cannot say that we altogether like the treatment given to the subject in this book. There is, indeed, something incongruous in the title. When we get past the patriarchal ago there are no "girls" in the Bible, excepting, it may be, the shadowy figure of jephthah's daughter ; nor can we interpret the facts of ancient life by modern ways. Rachel was" the one woman in the world" to Jacob ! Who would speak of Martha and Mary and the woman with the alabaster box as "girls "? Miss Bone has often something worth hearing to say; we wish that she had taken another way of saying it.