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Show tongues, and even to writing forms now obsolete. It Is, of course, the British Bibb-society Bibb-society which has compiled and pub lished this Interesting book. An Index In-dex of the amazing nnd profitable nctlvity of this tireless society Is afforded In the statement that when It was organized In 1S01, the Bible was available In only 72 languages, i With unexpected developments now and then, surprise Is caused by evidences evi-dences of the slow but sure Influence Influ-ence which the western world has exerted on the static civilizations of the East. Surprise Is lessened by a knowledge of what this society and other organizations have done during the last 128 years. Scriptural Truth Now Spread'to All Lands A new edition of a work, valuable to the scientific study of speech, as well as to religion, is about to be issued is-sued at London, observes the SL Louis Globe-Democrat. It contains some passages from the Scriptures as translated Into no less than CC3 different languages. It Is said there Is no tongue and no Important dialect In which a version of at least some part of the Scriptures Is unknown. un-known. The total copies of the Bible printed in nil these CG5 languages are dow placed at 440.000.000, the number num-ber of lauguages and of copies Increasing, In-creasing, of course, almost yearly. Samples of the GO different alphabets alpha-bets In which these GG5 versions are printed are given In the work and range from Roman to syllabary script like the Cherokee to the hieroglyphics hiero-glyphics of Chinese and similar |