The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-09-17
LITERATURE.


Axvp,c.N VRRs,oN or THE REVISED Nav les
rIMsNr. (SecOnd Edition.) With the Read
ings and Renderings preferred ov the amer
can Committee Of Revision incorporated INT!
The text by Roswell d. Hitchcock, ID. ID. Presi
dent of the Union Theological Seminary, New
York. New York: Fords, Howard 81 Hubert
Long Primer, Crown, 8vo. All rights reserved
Cloth red edges, 81 90; Morocco, Gr. Leather
gilt edges, sl.75; Full Turkey Morocco CIV
edges, So. Is.
II known that In the course OF the ten years
labor Ia revising the English translation OF TN
New Testament by q committee OF learned mer
psrt English and part American, many import
ant changes were suggested by the American re
yIsers which the more conservative English were
unwilling to adopt, and the work as finally CIV
en- 10 the world as that Of the whole committee
emitted these Yet II Is credit both to Amerl
can scholarship and American sincerity that mos
Of these readings preferred by the American
branch of the committee are almost universally
accepted by the learned a. the truer and more
faithful translation OF those portions Of the ga
cred text. No sooner had the beautiful Oxford
and Cambridge editions Of the Revision been
published, and with the numerous reprints scat.
tered by millions over the Englishspeaking
world, than q demand arose from scholars and
the scholarly press for an edition which should
rescue those truer readings OF the American
Committee from the puzzling and almost useless
'hs," in which the English books and their
American reprints had tucked them away, and
should give them, each In its own place In the
text, showing the Revision as II would have been
n these readings had been bravely adopted.
This work Is admirably accomplished In the
volume before us. III form this american Yer
sion" is q reproduction Of the "Oxford Long
Primer Octave" and Is q clearly printed. we'll
made. handsome book. 1t gives all the results
OF the labor Of the ,chole international Commit.
tee--both the English and the American branch
%.
all denominations, and certain to grow In the
confidence Of sincere students OF the Bible every.
where, this cannot fail to become the accepted
version, throughout this country at least.
LIFs AND HER CHILDREN. Glimpses OF Animal
Life from the Amgba to the Insects. BY Ara.
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The work, as the title indicates, deals with the
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that doubtful and long disputed boundary line
that divides the animal from the vegetable king
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insects Standing on the sea shore some calm
summer evening, the whole surface often appears
luminous, and when we dip the liquid fire out In
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Of tiny bugs Of slime, smaller than a pin head.
~ hi, or irb t,y
might glows" are some OF lfes simplest chill
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mo grain Of sand
Bot moves n bright and million. peoped land"
Yet life on the dry land IL rs nothing compared
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