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Show M ,f- Books In Prison. M Prison literature litis many fine pro- m duetlons to It h credit in prone us well ns poetry, tn his prison at Athens, M Socrates completed his great arguinent H for Immortality ; In li ftotuan diintSeoh m tlallleo made some of his ttrcatostjlls- B covenes. In his prison In Wart burn H castle Luther triinslittedthe New Tcst- H ament Into the German InnRtmRe. 'I'Hir- 8 Ing his twelve years In Bedford Jail pH liiiii.van dreamed his Immortal dream H of the "Pilgrim's Progress." Sir Wiil- PB ter ltalelgb wrote his fragmentary M history of the world to beguile the loaf H years of his Imprisonment in the PPJ Tower of London. Much of the New PH Testament also Is prison literature. M 8oine of the finest of the epistles of B St. Paul were written during his lm- B prtsonincnt nt llonig, and thy Hook of H .the Tlovelutlon of St. John was writ- BH ten while he was an exile on the Island B prison of Patmoa L'iidun t'hroulele. |