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different

IBLE readers

may

Bible?

1937.

[If it had been couched in the langu- nge of our park by-laws. Here cads

Bbe divided into three Heinemann's have pu- my quarrel

classes:

Those who do not read the Bible at all. Those who read the Bible

only in church or on Sundays, under streas of emotion, or as a dolly

tion. Those who read the Bible as they would any other book,

Lot me deal with the second category first. Is there not a con- fusion of thought in'treating the Bible as though it were a part of what used to be considered Sunday clothes?

This Book, which is the principul reading in church, must, if there is anything in religion, be, at least os good as any other book for reading out of church. "Not necessarily," you say: "other books might be better literature,"

They might. But they are not. The Bible, particularly the. English version of it, is the greatest piece of iterature in the world.

It is better than Aeschylus, Homer, Dante. It is better than anything else in the English language,

IN the whole of Milton's "Paradise Lost" there is nothing which can stand up against the sublimity of:

Canst thou bind the sweet in- fluences of Picindes, or loose the bands of Orlon?

There is nothing In Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality to stand; up against the triumphant reassurance of:

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

And though after my skia worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God,

blished the Bible, with- out chapters or vorses, to be road just as an ordinary book. It is reviewed here by

JAMES

AGATE

cross-

edged it, round-cornered it. limp-

and covered it, annotated referenced it, and so set it upart from all other reading matter that when one custs one's eye along one's shelves in search of something to rend, one instinctively passes over the Bible.

THIS edition treats the Bible for what it is a collection of lyric poetry, dramatle and elegine poetry, history, tales, philosophic treaties, collections of proverbs and letters.

The arrangement is by time and subject-matter, prose la printed as prose, verse as verse, and so on, and the tiresome genealogies are omitted. The type is beautiful and the whole make-up dignified. There are some extraordinarily useful explanations, and this edition gets over the difficul- ty concerning Ecclesiastes,

With all my heart and soul I have always rejected such teaching nat→→

The dead know not any thing neltver have they any more a reward; for the memory of them Is forgotten. As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more & portion for ever In any thing that is done under the sun.

With what wellet, and what joy,

This is necounted for partly by then, does one read that because of the appearance of the Bible, and the general tone of Ecclesiastes this partly by some old inherited notions always been the favourite book of this not being a book for secular of the Bible among unbelievers. rending. Charles Lamb ono win Ing us that without this book's erron-

All honour to Mr. Bales for

for tell- of books which are no books, in

Pocket, Books, Draught would

lettered

a

it

which be included Court Calendars, as hardly have found piace Directories,

back, Selentle

on the

the Jewish Sacred Serplures among the

bound antises. Almanacs, or been included in the Christian It is a sober fact that ninety-nine Bible. Down to the end of the fiest people out of

of every hundred, when century A.D. It was excluded from they run their eyes over a bookshelf, the Jewish canon of Scripture. as little think of reading the Bibic us they do those draught boards.

The new edition is intended to re- move this reproach.

ND yet, . Though in readng the Bible proper I um always conscious of great litera- ture, I am not quite sure that in read- HAVE only one quarreling this compliation of great litera- with Mr. Binyon.

ture I am reading the Bible.

1

There is nothing in Shakespeare to quarrel with him when, in lils intro- stand up against the drama of:

duction, he writes:

While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and buid,

Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in ' their eldest brother's house:

And, behold, there came ta . great wind from the wilderness..

and smote the four corners of the house. and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Then Jub arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

And said, Nuked came I put at my mother's womb and naked. shall I return thither; the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken śwny; blessed be the name of the Lord.

There may be some still to whom

Perhaps it is a matter of use. A man muy pray in an open field, and perhaps nowhere better.

But, rightly or wrongly, I feel that

it savours of a kind of derogation to a place where thousands of people treat of the Sacred Scriptures as have prayed before me-In other "literature." It is the inward mess-words, a church-best disposes to nge, they will say, which matters, prayer. not the outward form.

appreciate all that this TOW edition of the Bible sets out to do. I But it is as great an error to ima-hope it will do it. I believe that it gine that the substance can be will bring many new readers. And abstracted from the form as that the form can be abstracted from the sub- stance. These arc onc and divisible.

rejoice.

But for myself I shall continue to In-read

the Bible in the form in which millions have read it before me.

Can it be supposed that the words which have carried hope und awe. fortitude and consolation, into the minds of English people for so many generatons would have had anything like the same virtue and powers if they had not been shaped into a noble and unforgettable form?

I quarrel with this. It is as though Mr. Binyon should tell me to belleve the doctrines of a particular religion-because-of-the-colour of the The render realises, of course, that robes worn by its ministers or the these three passages are taken from music played in its enthedrals. one book only--the Book of Job,

One knows how translations im- So much for the second category.poverish. He end of the words, A French who, Instead Our first, let me recall, was made Ophelia up of the people who do not read "Where is the beauteous majesty of the Bible, which includes those who Denmark?' came on to the stage. have never read it.

nudged a courtier, and said, "La Reine de Denmark, holn?”

I remember making a bet that I would usk six young men under twenty how Charles I. came by his denth, and that I should not receive the correct reply.

The first five either asked who I was getting at, said it was none of their business, or looked blank. The sixth said: "Polsoned!"

Bible as Literature" is pub- at 10s, Gd., and has 1,238 pages. It is edited and arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates, and has an intro- duction by Laurence Binyon.

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No claim will be admitted after Anybody who has read a French the Goods have left the ship. Bible must be willing to allow that All broken, chafed, and damaged Tyndale's translation may be an Im-Goods will be examined on board by provement on the Hebrew. It is our surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and nonsense, then, to say that the sub- Douglas, before the goods are stance of the Heberw Bible is one delivered. with the English form.

I should like to bet that I could It is nonsense to say that, in any nsk six growing lads who or what scale other than the aesthetic, in- were Jab's comforters without re-ward message and outward form are ceiving the correct answer,

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4 A good thing to start dinner

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8 Being behindhand is not 80

much about a number (8), Point about a well-broken nag, and sharp too (8),

10 There's poetry in this refreshing

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11 Equal, but has to go up finally

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13 A disordered lament (8). 14 Foolish (0).

15 The Spaniard who ripped up

the already broken road. (8)..

16 An aromatic herb (0),

17 This news Is news Indeed (8).

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(5).

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32 A kind of poem (5).

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