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Bible-Women and Nurses. (Cassell and Co.)—The "seventh volume" of this

useful periodical does not yield in pathetic interest to those that have gone before it. It describes itself on the title-page as "A Record of the Work of the London Bible and Domestic Female Mission." And, truly, this work is in a field where there is much to be done. Open the volume where we will, we find descriptions of suffering, often borne with a patience beyond praise, that cannot fail to touch the heart. The two works of ministry to the needs of the body and evangelisation are carried on together. The work that the nurse begins, the Bible-woman often carries on. Hearts that the kindly and helpful services of the one have influenced, are still further wrought upon by the timely ministrations of the other.