THE BOOK OF BOOKS
OLD VERSION’S POPULARITY. Schoolmasters .sometimes complain that children nowadays slunv small sign of having conic from homes in which the stories of the Bible are familiar and the phrases of the Bible well known. The .London ‘ Daily Telegraph’ says: “Wc suspect that the families in which Biblical things were household words were always a minority, They may r be now a smaller minority' than ever. Against that is to be sot the wider appreciation ol llio Bible as literature, ft is not only in the familiar one-volume lorm that the Bible is now circulated. In any bookseller’s shop we may find it on the shelves in parts, the diderent books set out as■ poetry, philosophy, and history. “The sab’s of such edit ions as these do not appear in the figures “1 |hc Bible Society, hut one other striking fact is there. For every solitary copy of the Revised Version the society sells no fewer than eighty-fix ot the Authorised Version.’
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Evening Star, Issue 19931, 30 July 1928, Page 8
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165THE BOOK OF BOOKS Evening Star, Issue 19931, 30 July 1928, Page 8
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