TERE UNTVERGETY OF CHECAGO PRESS 
The Child and His Religion. By George E. Dawson, of the 
Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy. 
130 pages, 16mo, cloth; postpaid 82 cents 
The aim of the book is to suggest the principal elements in 
the child’s religious nature and training. The first chapter treats 
of interest as the fundamental dynamic factor in life and growth. 
The second chapter considers the child’s natural religious reac- 
tions to its environing world as modes of such interest. The 
third chapter gives the results of an inductive study of children’s 
interest in the Bible. And the fourth chapter applies the prin- 
ciples thus brought to light to the general problem of religious 
education. 
Journal of Education. Here is a realm of deepest interest and full of the 
greatest surprises. What the child thinks religiously has attracted many 
an able writer, and has given many a mother food for thought. Our 
author gives us in this little work some excellent material about the 
little people’s religious concepts. Out of the strangeness of many of 
their sayings, and especially their queries, the author guides us to the 
great principles involved in them, although unknown to the child mind 
at the time. It will prove itself a worthy book for anyone to read 
who has anything to do with the religious training of children. It is 
as reverent as it is suggestive. 
Ezra Studies. By Charles C. Torrey, Professor of Semitic Lan- 
guages in Yale University. 
340 pages, 8vo, cloth; postpaid $1.69 
Of all the apocalyptic and apocryphal writings that are traced 
to Palestinian Jewish sources none has had so important a bearing 
on the science of Old Testament literature as First Esdras. 
The author has perceived that a thorough revision of the existing 
notions of the history of the Jewish people in the Persian period 
is inevitable, and each chapter of his book is constructive. 
The Biblical World. No scholar hereafter can do any creditable work 
upon Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, without taking full account of 
the labors of Professor Torrey. 
The Nation. His scholarly investigations offer a noteworthy contribu- 
tion to our knowledge of Jewish life in the A anes under discussion 
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