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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 1, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 30.

"Records of the English Bible." Edited with an introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London, New York.

This is a timely book, coming as it does in the three hundredth year of the translation of the King James Version of the English Bible. Many have wished, indeed, that they might have the records that would give them the particulars of the age and time in which that Bible was translated, wished that they had more of the particulars between the days of John Wyclif and the days of the Bible translators. In this book we have these facts compiled in a very full, clear way. We know of no one volume that gives so much information regarding these times of Bible translation and revision as does this one which lies before us. The first three chapters deal with the earlier English translations, the Bible of 1611, and later history of the Bible of 1611. The records of that time deal with the prohibition of English translations from the time of Wyclif unless authorized by a bishop of a provincial council; "Sir Thomas More on the Prohibition;" "Tyndale's Translations and His Story of Them;" "The Printing of the First New Testament;" "Henry the Eighth's Belief that Tyndale was Instigated by Luther;" "An Expert Criticism of Tyndale's Version;" "Joye's Unauthorized Revision of Tyndale's Version;" "The Bishops' Version;" "Coverdale's Bible;" "Bibles Confiscated;" "The Reims New Testament;" and many other records of equal interest. These are listed under sixty-three heads in all, giving a vast amount of information concerning that book which has had more influence upon the world than any other. The Bible student will be glad to welcome the book.