THE BIBLE
ABRIDGED EDITION.
REVISERS AT WORK. ■MAKING IT MORE ATTRACTIVE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.; (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 11.10 a.m. to-day. LONDON, May 13. The Rev. Alexander Nairne, Sir Arthur Quiller-Gouch, and Mr. T. A. Glover, public orator at Cambridge University, are editing a new abridged edition of the Bible.
Sir A. Quiller Couch says: “The present Bible is repellant as a book, owing to its system of double columns, marginal references, and numbered verses. People are no longer buying or reading it. We are considering reducing it to a volume of nine hundred dispensing with marginal notes and numbered verses, and retaining Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy, except the genealogical trees, deleting most of Leviticus and Numbers, greatly reducing Proverbs, separating the poetical from the historical sections of Isaiah, purging the latter with Kings, excluding. Chronicles altogether, printing Psalms and Job in free verse, also retaining the whole of the New Testament, except a few epistles.’’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 May 1928, Page 5
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