CHR.ISTMAS LITERATURE FOR THE BLIND.-" The Way They Have in
the Navy" Calendar (1s. 3d.) ; "Day by Day" Monthly Readings (9d.) ; A Christmas Carol (5d.); Christmas Cards (from 1d. to 6d.) (Issued by the Editor of the Weekly Summary, Share, Surrey.)-The editor of the newspaper for the blind, the Weekly Summary, provides a packet of Christmas fare for blind readers. We notice, besides "Day by Day" selections-the third of this series-a novelty in the shape of a Christmas carol embossed in Braille, the words and music by Marian Brook Taylor. The Calendar for next year takes as the keynote for its quotations Nelson's famous " Duty " signal before Trafalgar, and an embossed presentment of H.M.S. 'Royal Sovereign' fitly adorns the cover. We commend a new depar- ture among the Christmas cards, in the shape of a spray of real ivy, the touch of which will give pleasure to many to whom the ordinary embossed emblems are indecipherable. The quotations, both in the Calendar and booklet, are selected with the editor's usual catholicity of taste ; and we note with pleasure among the names that of Bishop Phillips Brooks, of Boston. The chief publication of the office, its weekly budget of the news of the world, continues its useful career; and sparing no pains for the benefit of its blind readers, it even presents them with a Christ- mas number containing "The Building of Santa Sophia," by S. Baring-Gould.
C URRENT LITERATURE.
BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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