The Old Testament Story: 

 Told to the Young 



By GLADYS DAVIDSON. 



Author of " Stories from the Operas." 



Fully illustrated in double tone from old Masterpiece*. 

 Demy 8vo. 6s. net 



FIRST Review.— Westminster GasetU. 



The outstanding feature of this volume which satchel and 

 delights the eye at one* is the manner in which it is illustrated. 

 Instead of introducing the ordinary modern drawings, perhaps 

 extremely correct as to technical detail, but too often found lacking 

 in dignity and imagination, Miss Davidson has gene to the Old 

 Masters, or rather, she has let Mr F. Hanfstaengl choose her 

 Illustrations for her from the enormous number of which he has 

 published such first-rate reproductions. The result is excellent, 

 and if it were only for the three beautiful Rem brand ts, Poussin's 

 "Jonah Cast into the Sea," and Murillo's " Isaac Blessing Jacob," 

 the book would rank among the most attractively illustrated of its 

 kind. Children will also be at once fascinated by Jan Brueghel's 

 " Garden of Eden," with its dreamland atmosphere, and by Pedro 

 de Moya's two scenes of the story of Joseph. 



But the illustrations, after all, an of minor importance in books 

 •f this type, and we turn to the text with special interest. How 

 has Miss Davidson attempted to interest the modern child which is 

 for ever asking " Is it a true story ? " and which, in a scientific 

 age, is almost " trained to doubt " ? She says in her preface, " I 

 have endeavoured to present the stories and incidents in accord- 

 ance with the views of those modern scholars who regard and 

 teach the Bible from a wide and reasonable standpoint ; and at the 

 same time ... to preserve the religious character and beauty 

 of these wonderful stories of old time, and to set them forth with 

 love and reverence." To do this is no easy task, for such stories 

 as that of Lot and the Cities of the Plain, of Samson and his 

 deeds of strength, of Jonah, and Daniel, and Nebuchadnezzar, 

 have to be very carefully dealt with, if told by the light of 

 modern science, and yet as part of the inspired writs in " the 

 most wonderful Book in the world." But Miss Davidson 

 has been surprisingly successful, and the combination of sagacity, 

 reverence, and picturesqueness with which the stories are told 

 should make she volume acceptable wherever parents and 

 teachers are anxious to guide the young fas their religious 

 education in the direction which should be acceptable alike to 

 tboae " whoa* law is reason," and to she nenad-msnded Chrtatton 



