Originally published in 1904, this concise volume presents the content of a lecture delivered at King's College Women's Department during October 1904. The text focuses on the relationship between general learning and biblical instruction, putting forward reasons for bringing the two together in order to encourage 'the full satisfaction of both the intellectual and the spiritual needs of man'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in religious education, biblical studies and pedagogical history.

This history was published in 1921 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Newnham College, Cambridge.