Show JOHN BUNYAN IN LITERATURE Last Sunday was the anniversary of the beginning beginning begin begin- ning of John ohn T Banyans Banyan's twelve twel year imprisonment in n Bedford jail in 1660 and the thc effort rt has been m made e in England to place a memorial window to toBun Bun Bunyan an in Westminster Abbey Commenting upon upon up up- on onit it the New York World says sas To fo most people he ic is hardly more than a name Who Vho nowadays reads cads the Pilgrims Pilgrim's s 's Progress though it it is included in ill n every modern library u The rhe World is mistaken There arc are more people reading rending Pilgrims Pilgrim's Progress now than ever before because there are arc more people that can rea read H Jt was a great book in its day and it loses nothing h by comparison with the much finer compositions of modern noden days das John Bunyan filled a sphere of his own He Hc got sot down to poor human nature and wrote his religion in a st style le that the humblest reader rader can understand and yet ct there was something some some- thing hing about it that drew rew scholars to it and it it continues continues con con- to draw scholars to it it and Macauley's i o in- in i ici 01 l of it was so high that flint he said There is is is' 10 o book in our literature on which we would so read read- ily ly stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language no no book which shows so well how rh that bat language is in its own proper wealth and how little ittle it has improved by bj all that it has borrowed Macaulay l was a pretty good judge lIe He used to o say that if Scotts Scott's poems were to be lost he hc could retty nearly make them up from memory and that ht he K- K knew new Pilgrims Pilgrim's Progress by heart |