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Show Van Loon Writes Story of Bible Mendrlk Wlllem Van toon eablea front Cambridge. Kntlan4. that "The Story of th, Bible," haa at last b.rn flnlehea an4 aMa In a Ion letter to hla publleher, Mr. Uverrtght, Thla la a alrane plecj of work. And to tell the truth, 1 em a Utile afraid of It. Not for anr tangible reaaon. But I vafue-y vafue-y apprehend that my humble effort ef-fort will leed to endlee mleunder-etandlnt: mleunder-etandlnt: and to unlimited argument, argu-ment, whereaa I am dolnc my beet to write eomethlna that ahall art the world free from atlll more deputation Ao a matter of fart 1 am not trylnr to rewrite tha Hlble. or Interpret the Bible, or (Ire. a modern vereton of the Bible. I am lravtnff the Bible moat aererely alone. The Holy Book, have beer, tranilated with extreme competency competen-cy by our irreat vrandfathera. 1 have a profound reanect for their labore. Thoee who expert to read a Bible written aaaloat a berk-around berk-around of the lateet arcjieologlral and philological dlerovrrlea wilt be dteappolnted. The book merely tflU the atory aa I personally f,nld like to tell It to my own Jnoya. Nothing mora and nothing l format, tha pnbllahera atate. "The Btory of the Bible," will clone-ly clone-ly resemble "The Btory of Manama." Man-ama." and will contain over loe blark mi " white lllustratlo.ia, eiltht four-color pairee and numerous numer-ous half-tone plcturea, .all done by Vm Looa with characterutlc f.rvor and Imaartnatlon. They predict pre-dict en even areeter aale for thla Utest work of Van Loon's than -rhe "lory of Mankind,' which haa S consistently been near the top of beet eell-r" nonflction . booka for i p:'t,tlw0 years. mmmmmm |