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Show AUTHOR WRITES BOOK ON BIBLE George Stimpson was the first newspaperman in Washington, the "news center of the world," to discover that inasmuch as more than a billion Bibles have been printed, the record deserved recognition rec-ognition as a billionaire subject. And that may be a reason why he decided there should "A Book About the Bible." And how our Dean of Washington correspondents correspond-ents laid aside many of his heavy duties and "researched" through thousands of volumes in the Congressional Con-gressional Library where he found so "many odd, interesting and im-poctant im-poctant facts about the Bible that everybody wants to know" that he finally completed a manuscript which has been printed in a book of about 500 pages, by Harper & Brothers. This book about the Book may be definitely classified as. invaluable, as it clarifies and stimulates greater interest in topics top-ics listed as secular beliefs, cus- toms, moral precepts, stories ,il- lustrations, figures of speech, treasures of literature, history, biography, bi-ography, poetry, drama, orations, epigrams, proverbs, psalms, anecdotes, anec-dotes, elegies, letters common sayings, say-ings, maxims, general wisdom, punch. He humanizes many parts of the original Book. Every Bible student, or reader, should have the volume in the family library. This book has the distinction of having been written by a former president of the National Press Club, the greatest organization of newsmen in the round world. That is a guarantee that the Book has interesting human interest, covering cover-ing such interesting explanations as the language spoken by Adam, the antiquity of Bible manuscripts the origin of Sunday as the"Cnris-tian the"Cnris-tian Sabbath, the mystery of the whale and its swallowing capacity. capaci-ty. Harper & Brothers says the "book is for everyone," from the average reader to the wisest minister. min-ister. The distinguished John Haynes Holmes says the last word on the jacket-cover; that this Book about The Bible is "a highly high-ly original approach to the question, ques-tion, as fascinating as it is unusual." |