| Show FAMILY BIBLE obsolescent publisher says the trade in that once popular form of tho the sacred book Is dying out A philadelphia publishing house that makes a specialty of the sacred book says the family bible trade la Is languishing the bible continues to be the best seller but it la Is no longer the immense volume that stood on the parlor center table and contained marvelous marve loua steel engravings of the tower of dabel babel and the fall of nineveh and had room for all the family records the thing now Is a thin paper student edition with flexible covers conc concordance ordanie and notes and all suited to the overcoat pocket it room for any family history i but it can be introduced luto a stingy city flat without crow crowding dlug the family the cubing of the family bible la Is significant of an interesting change in the keeping of vital statistics hec of 0 birth s deaths and marriages have ceased to be a family and become a state function it Is done better and more completely than in tho the old days and the records are more useful to the public that fact need not prevent our dropping a tear at the prosing of an old cherished insel aution success magazine |
