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There has come to hand the new pro duct of Oxford Presses called The .Young Folks’ Bible, Style 6181. There are 77 beautiful illustrations and 5 maps in this attractive, yet moderately priced Bible ($3.50) and we believe the book, with its helps prepared- especially for the young, will have a strong appeal. It will make an excellent gift Bible.—K. L. B. —o— From Every Tribe and Nation B y B elle M. B rain Fifty new missionary stories are fur nished us in this excellent $1.50 volume printed by Revell Company. This com pilation of well-told stories by Miss Brain tells Of inspiring lives of Christian con verts On'the foreign field. The fifty sto ries, each brief, concise, and revealing, come from all parts of the world, and re late incidents in the Christian experience of men and women of all grades of life; poor and rich; humble and famous; black, white, yellow, red and brown. Workers in Sunday schools, missionary meetings, and mission study classes, and also preachers of missionary sermons, will find them very usable and effective. Miss Brain’s earlier popular books of missionary stories foretell an extensive use of the present volume.—K. L. B. —o— Hold Fast By Your Sundays L ord ’ s D ay O bservance S ociety of L ondon A short and simple, but readable story, written by a man who, amid the tempta tions of youth, did hold fast by his Sab baths to his own spiritual, mental, phy sical and material advantage. It is not a book of dogmatic moralizing or a treatise on Sabbath observance, but a plain, practical little life story, full of sound and wholesome lessons. It claims to be written for the rising generation, but should be equally helpful and sugges tive to parents)—F. M. C. —o— The Humanism of Jesus B y R obert H. W. S hepherd , M.A. Among all the books that, have been written to make real and attractive the human side of Jesus Christ’s life, nothing has appeared in the last five years that is so sympathetic, true to the Bible story, and at the same time illuminating, as the “Humanism of Jesus” by Robert H. W. Shepherd, M.A., published by George H. Doran Company, New York, and sold for $ 2 . 00 . It is impossible to read these brilliantly and simply written pages by this mission ary of South Africa without realizing that he has companioned with Jesus in a sympathetic and knowing way. Every chapter is full of insights and circum stances that ought to be of the greatest help to the Christian in his living, and the preacher and the teacher in their pub lic ministry.—J. M. M. —H>— Evolution and Revelation P rof . J. A. F leming , M.A., D.Dc., F.R.S. Published by Morgan & Scott, Ltd. Price 15c The Victoria Institute is the Philo sophical Society of Great Britain and stands for the investigation, in a reverent spirit, of important questions of Philoso phy and Science, especially those bearing
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