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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

IS BIBLE "HARMFUL" TO ENGLISH PROSE?

Opinions on

Famous Author's

Judgment

SEVERAL well-known people expressed to the London

News Chronicle recently their opinions on Mr. Somer- set Maugham's statement in his new book, "The Sum. ming Up," that "King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose,"

He adds: Its "alien imagery has nothing to do with us" and "Blunt Englishmen twisted their tongues to epenk like Hebrew propheta." indeed, Implies that, if the English

Mr. Maugham also says that he Bible had not been published, all the Is not so stupid as to deny the Bible's great beauty.

writers, of genlus, from Milton and Bunyan down to Stevenson and Kipling, would have written greater works than wa now possess.

were

Here are opinions on his words: Bir Arthur Quiller-Couch ("Q"):

This is a large assumption. It "Of course I do not agree with him.

more reasonable to I think his remarks are ill-conceived, seems to me In my opinion the effect of the Bible assume that the great periods of has been good."

Engilsh prose which followed the ["Q" has often lectured on the publication of the English Bible, for Bible

and on one occasion referred to from being damaged by t the text "Render to Caesar the things deeply indebted to it. that are Caesar's," He said that in

people the language of certain these times the text would written: "Render unto Caesar those on too long. It has been copied from to another down the ages. Il appertain to that, one

might have been a good influence

that

Milas Marjorie Bowen: "1 think 1

in agree with Mr. Maugham really. The

PREMIER -A recent portrait of Mohammed Mahmoud Praha, recently appointed Premier of Egypt by King Farouk. The new Premier was educated at Oxford.

TROOPS LEAVE

FRONTIER

N. W. be influence is too strong and has gone

The fact that a considerable

things Potentate."]

Mr. H. G. Wells: "I should be in- when the Bible was first translated, improvement has taken place in the situation in Waziristan is clined to agree with Mr. Maugham." but it has got stale,"

Mr. Hugh Redwood: "The answer indicated in an announcement

made here recently.

Dr. Campbell Morgan: "I entirely

Our whole to Mr. Maugham is to be found in the

disagree with him.

23rd Psalm, In the 65th chapter of English tongue at its best is built up Isalah, in the 8th chapter of Romans on the translation from the Hebrew,

and in the 1st Epistle to the "I cannot see why Mr. Maugham attacks the imagery of the prophets. Cortinthians, chapter 13.

I know of no imagery aner than theirs.

It has come into

our

HIGHEST IDEALS "Whatever the imagery, the Bible language has no more done harm to English with great force, enriching our think-prose than Shakespeare or Milton," ing and our imagery.

Dr. Leslie Church, of the Methodist Bir. Robert Lyad: "Mr. Maugham's Publishing House: "Let a man rend statement seems to me rather like Paalm 23, the Sermon on

Mount, saying that Christianity has had a the Lord's Prayer, and compare the damaging effect on European archi-language of imagery with his own

highest ideals and noblest desires.

tecture.

the

WOULD HAVE DECAYED

"He will find they mirror in lan- guage which is for the most part "If Mr. Maughan's theory were universal in its significance the best

unlikely that he can wish for the human race. true, it seems very English prose should have flourished, Within even so small a compass

It states that the following units have left Waziristan for their peace stations,

The 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry and one squadron of the Scinde Horse;"

The H. Q. of the 4th Field Brigade and the 4th

60th batteries, and Royal Artillery.

The 1st Bn. Royal Norfolk Regl- ment, 2nd Bn, Argyll and Suther- land Highlanders, 3rd Bn. Dth Jat Regiment, 1st Bn. 9th Gurkha Rifles, and 1st, 2nd and 4th Hoad Constructions Battalions; 6th Light Tank Company. Two companies of miners, and one Beld ambulance and

sappers

and

BEAUTY SHOPPE instead of decaying after the trans- is the highest goal he can conceive other miscellaneous units have also

lation

BREWERY

NOINN

of the Bible. His theory, for the spiritual pligrimage of man." been withdrawn--Reuter.

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