Roosevelt Standard | 1917-02-21 | Page 7 | Books in Prison

books in prison prison literature has many fine productions duct ions to its credit in prose as well as poetry in Ms his prison at athens athena socrates completed his great argument for immortality in a roman dungeon PaI galileo lleo made some of his greatest discoveries co in his prison in wartburg castle luther translated the new testament into the german language during his twelve years in bedford jail bunyan dreamed his immortal dream of the pilgrims grims progress sir walter raleigh wrote his frag fragmentary history of the world to beguile the long years of his imprisonment in the tha tower of london much of the new testament also Is prison literature some of the finest of the epistles of st paul were written during his imprisonment p rison ment at rome and the book ot of the revelation of st john was written while he was an exile on the island prison of patmos london chronicle