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Show Ecck cf Kelis Great Treasure cf Ireland I no value Now thp book Is considered the most perfect expression of Christian Chris-tian an that has survived the Colden age of Irohir.d London Express. About the time that the Human em pi re was sinking and London was little more than a haunted ruin on a hill, there was an unknown Irish monk en gaged, day after day. year aftet year at his writing table in un abbey at Kells. Ireland He was transcribing the ftospols and making n book thai has survived to this day as one of Hip rarest and most beautiful in existence It Is called Hie book of Kells ami todav it reposes In the treasure room of Trinity college. Dublin, where many a collector has viewed it and had offers spurned. Its writer enriched it with a thousand Intricacies of design and men looking at it today wonder not only at the fertility of his brain but at the keenness of his eyesight, so microscopical are the lines. Once the book was stolen and found two months la'et in nn earth pile where the thief had flung ll when he decided It was of |