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Dr. Geikie has not made the mistake of allowing the principal figure to be lost sight of in the multitudinous details which group themselves around it, but he has rightly judged that a thorough apprehension of those details must greatly help the reader to understand and appreciate Christ's teachings and the events of his career. The result is, a book which every earnest student of the New Testament will be glad to place on his shelves, and frequently to consult. In wealth of information upon many of the facts and phenomena which gave to the world the aspect which it wore in the time of Christ, and its peculiar tone to the society in which he moved, Dr. Geikie's book, we believe, stands alone among the many lives of Christ which have been published in England during recent years-not excepting Dr. Farrar's remarkable and popular work."-London Literary World. "It may, perhaps, occasion some surprise, that Dr. Geikie should have chosen this time to produce a life of Christ, when Canon Farrar's work on the same subject seems scarcely yet to have reached the zenith of its popularity. The present book, however, differs very considerably from its predecessor in scope, and in many important features Dr. Geikie approaches his task from the same standpoint,-that of an unreserved believer in revelation, but he takes a larger and wider view of his subject, giving a very full account of the political history of the Jews at the period, besides a much more minute description of the social and religious life of the people. Indeed, the book is so exhaustive that we can scarcely think any scattered grains of information are left for gleaners who may wish to follow in the same path."-John Bull. "The author has brought to his difficult and noble task the stores of an eloquent, well-informed and devout mind. 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ABOUT OLD STORY-TELLERS, OF HOW AND WHEN THEY LIVED, AND WHAT STORIES THEY TOLD. By DONALD G. MITCHELL, author of "The Reveries of a Bachelor," etc., etc. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. One Volume, Square 12mo, Holiday Style, Cloth Extra, Gilt Top, $2.00. The long silence of this favorite author is at length broken, and it is the young people whom he now invites to the feast which he has prepared for them. The somewhat quaint title of the book faithfully indicates its contents. The intention of the author has been to supply young people—and, indeed, older readers as well-with such short and attractive biographies of the great story-tellers of the world, as shall awaken renewed interest in the tales they have told. How admirably this has been done can only be appreciated after reading the life-like pictures he gives us of Scott, De Foe, Goldsmith, Swift, Bunyan, and others. 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