I.--The Gospel according to St. Mark, Presenting the Evangelical Story in its Simplest Form; Supplemented by Selections from St. Matthew and St. Luke. II.--The Acts of the Apostles, with some Indication of the Probable Place of the Epistles in the Narrative. III.--The Epistles of St. James and the First Epistle of St. Peter. IV.--The Epistles of St. Paul. V.--The Epistle to the Hebrews. VI.--The Revelation of St. John (A Portion). VII.--The First Epistle of St. John. VIII.--The Gospel of St. John. Full details of the plan of the undertaking, and of the methods adopted by the editors in the selection and arrangement of the material, will be found in the separate prospectus. "I congratulate you on the issue of a work which, I am sure, will find a wide welcome, and the excellent features of which make it of permanent value."--Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York. "Should prove a valuable adjunct of Biblical instruction."--Rt. Rev. W. E. Stevens, Bishop of Pennsylvania. "Admirably conceived and admirably executed.... It is the Bible story in Bible words. The work of scholarly and devout men.... Will prove a help to Bible study."--Rev. Howard Crosby, D.D. "We know of no volume which will better promote an intelligent understanding of the structure and substance of the Bible than this work, prepared, as it is, by competent and reverent Christian scholars."--_Sunday-School Times._ G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK: 27 AND 29 WEST 23D STREET LONDON: 27 KING WILLIAM ST., STRAND Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors (omitted punctuation, omitted or transposed letters, etc.) have been amended without note. Use of hyphenation and accents have also been made consistent without note, where there was a definite preference of one variation over the other. The following amendments have also been made (the errors in the index being amended with reference to the main text): Page viii--41 amended to 40--"... Unsuccessful siege of Bujēya, 40 ..." Page 72--Tinnēs amended to Tinnis--"... Damietta, Alexandria, Tinnis, and Cairo ..." Page 83--Vizīr amended to Vezīr--"The Grand Vezīr Ibrahīm recognized ..." Page 133--a closing quote immediately before footnote reference [40] has been deleted. The text immediately preceding this quote mark does not occur in the referenced work, so I have made the assumption that this quote mark was a typographical error and deleted it. Page 175--battaille amended to bataille--"... the centre _corps de bataille_ ..." Page 222, footnote--less amended to lest--"... the hold lest it should interfere ..." Page 230--absoluting amended to absolutely--"... and absolutely prohibiting all trade ..." Page 233--cruize amended to cruise--"... and cruise across the Egyptian trade route ..." Page 242, second footnote--Olive amended to Oliver--"second ed., London, Oliver Payne, ..."