This volume is designed to present a selection of the greater part of theEnglish Bible as literature. It is intended for all readers, of whatever belief, opinion, orbringing-up. It is not the first attempt, but the selection and arrangement of it are new.Ernest Sutherland Bates is the editor and arranger.

The following purposes are given:

1. To afford a conservative narration from the creation to the exile, supplementing it witha selection from 1 Maccabees to complete the story down to the times of Jesus;
2. To emphasize the greatest of the Prophets and minimize the others;
3. To rearrange the drama, poetry, and fiction, adding parts of the Apocrypha;
4. To give the basic biography of Jesus found in the Gospels;
5. To restrict the utterances of Paul to those that have immortal value and to omit entirelythe unimportant pseudonymous epistles;
6. To print all the works in order of their composition, as far as possible.

There is an introduction to each book. Within this is described the literarytype of the book. At the back are two short appendices: "A Note on Translations" and "Dates ofthe Books."

It contains much of the Old Testament and the New Testament, and part of theApocrypha.

William Heinemann (1930??)

[Tyndale House, Cambridge, UnitedKingdom]