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Rh This work is the result of almost incredible labour bestowed on it during ''many years. Its object is to enable the readers of the Old Testament'' ''Scriptures to penetrate into the real meaning of the sacred writers. All the'' English words used in the Authorized Version are alphabetically arranged, and beneath them are given the Hebrew equivalents, with a careful expla&shy;nation ''of the peculiar signification and construction of each term. The'' knowledge the Hebrew language is not absolutely necessary to the profit&shy;able ''use of the work. Devout and accurate students of the Bible, entirely'' unacquainted with Hebrew, may derive great advantage from frequent ''reference to it. It is especially adapted for the use of the clergy. “For all'' earnest students of the Old Testament Scriptures it is a most valuable ''Manual. Its arrangement is so simple that those who possess only their'' mother-tongue, if they will take a little pains, may employ it with great profit.” —.

Actual need has led the author to endeavour to prepare a reading book con&shy;venient for study with children, containing the very words of the Bible, with only a few expedient omissions, and arranged in Lessons of such length as by experience she has found to suit with children's ordinary power of accurate ''attentive interest. The verse form has been retained, because of its con&shy;venience'' for children reading in class, and as more resembling their Bibles; ''but the poetical portions have been given in their lines. When Psalms or'' portions from the Prophets illustrate or fall in with the narrative they are ''given in their chronological sequence. The Scripture portion, with a very'' few notes explanatory of mere words, is bound up apart, to be used by children, while the same is also supplied with a brief comment, the purpose of which is either to assist the teacher in explaining the lesson, or to be used by more advanced young people to whom it may not be possible to give ''access to the authorities whence it has been taken. Professor Huxley, at a'' meeting of the London School Board, particularly mentioned the selection made by Miss Yonge as an example of how selections might be made from ''the Bible for School Reading. See, March'' 30, 1871.