Very good hints on house, health, and clothes.
650. Social Economy Reading Book. (National Society) 2s.
Even better adapted for reading to mothers than by children.
EXTRACTS.
A few passages are here mentioned as serving well to read aloud at Mothers’ Meetings, though the whole book might not serve equally well.
651. The Way of the Cross. By Emily S. Holt. (Shaw) 1s. 6d.
The ‘Web Ismene Wove,’ the third tale in this book, is exceedingly beautiful, and is an excellent reading near Passiontide. It is the story of a Greek girl at Jerusalem, who longs to make something to be used in the service of the God of Israel. The white web she weaves comes to be sold in haste to Joseph of Arimathæa, and thus her longing is fulfilled. The second tale is harmless, being of the mother of Ahaz, and how she spoilt her son; but the first would hardly be given or read aloud by those who would shrink from the strong assertion that SS. James, Jude, and Joses were sons of the Blessed Virgin.
652. The Man on the Top of the Ark, and other Gospel Parables. By Alexander MacLeod Symington. (Nisbet) 1s.
If at the end of the first parable the reader inserts the text, ‘The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth now save us,’ the teaching is complete. The application of the Brazen Serpent and the City of Refuge is also excellent. They are the Biblical history dramatised, as it were. (See [No. 353].)
653. Catharine and Crawfurd Tait. (Macmillan) 2s. 6d. and 6s.