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ONENESS WITH CHRIST by W.R. Nicholson, D.D. Published by Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.00. This book is commentary on the epistle to the Colossians. As a book for the general public, it makes very good reading. It is spiritual and devotional. Moreover, the author maintains all the fundamental truths of the Christian faith as they concentrate around the atonement of our Savior. As sinners, according to the author, we may not come to God and enter into His blessed fellowship, except on the basis of God’s righteousness in Christ; and we cannot and will not come to God because we...

THINE IS THE KINGDOM, by James H. Hunter, published by Zondervan Publishing House. Price $3.00. This novel is the first prize winner in the second International Christian Fiction Contest. With its setting in the area of three beautiful lakes in northern Canada, it tells the story of a successful attempt to overthrow Communism there. The book has a clever and interesting plot based on the interplay of identical twins, and is easy and enjoyable to read. The characters in their thrilling and dangerous dealings with the Communists acknowledge their dependence on God. It is a Christian novel that can be...

LANGE’S COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY SCRIPTURES; PROVERBS-SONG OF SOLOMON. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $3.95. Also this volume of Lange’s Commentary I have examined, and I heartily recommend to our readers for its scholarly as well as for its conservative and spiritual approach to the Holy Scriptures. The Bibelwerk that bears the name of Lange ranks among the outstanding commentaries of all times. The present volume of Lange’s Commentary was originally written by Dr. Otto Zockler, a German theologian of the nineteenth century. The American edition has been much enriched by copious notes. We agree with...

QUESTIONS CHILDREN ASK, by Dena Korfker. Published by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $1.95. This is a book designed to be read by children or by parents to their children. In story form it treats various subjects as an answer to questions which chil­dren are supposed to ask and to which Miss Korfker gives the answer. In five parts, each with several subdivisions, questions are answered about the sky, the people that live in the world, “things” (electricity, airplanes, etc.), the Bible, and Jesus. I find this a very interesting and instructive book. Miss Korfker has the knack...

FEED MY LAMBS, by Henry T. Vriesen. Reliance Publish­ing Co., Green Bay, Wis. Price $3.00. This book is designed to be a help to parents in the biblical instruction of their children. It consists of three hundred and sixty-six brief chapters, one for every day of the year. Narratives of biblical history, both of the Old and of the New Testament, several se­lections from the Psalms, the prophets, the epistles, and a few from the book of Revelation, comprise the contents of this book. A series of prayers, one for each day of the week, is found in an appendix....

So You Want To Speak, by Mark W. Lee. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. This book presents the basic principles of public speaking in an interesting way, and offers many help­ful suggestions to anyone who wants to prepare and deliver a speech. I find especially interesting what the author has to say in chapter on “Let Them See You Speak”. He properly stresses that necessity of “eye-contact” which is indispensable for any public speaker, while, at the same time, it is my experience, in teaching public speech (homiletics), that when once a speaker develops the habit of looking over instead...

Calvin on Scripture and Divine Sovereignty, by John Murray. Published by Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Mich. Price $1.75. This is a very good book which I recommend to all our readers.

DE BIJBEL TOEGELICHT VOOR HET NEDERLANDSCHE VOLK. (The Bible explained for the Dutch people). Pub­lished by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen, the Netherlands. EXODUS, by Dr. P.N. Kruyswijk. In an introduction the writer points out the purpose or can­onical significance of Exodus as follows: “What is the purpose of the divine revelation in Exodus? It purposes to proclaim the continuation of God’s redemptive work, whereby God fulfills His promises in the adoption of His people, and with a view to the coming of Christ.”

WHYTE’S BIBLE CHARACTERS, by Alexander Whyte, 2 volumes. Reprint by Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Price $12.50. We become more and more indebted to the Zondervan Pub­lishing House for publishing worthwhile Christian literature, and especially for reprinting some works of Reformed authors of the not too distant past.

DE CIVITATE DEI I; by Dr. D.K. Wielenga. Published by J.H. Kok, N.V., Kampen the Netherlands. Price f.3.50. This book has nothing to do with the well-known work by Augustine under the same title, except that the author treats somewhat the same kind of material as Augustine in his “City of God.” It is designed as a textbook for high schools, and for this it is admirably adapted.