Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-03-17
NEW-CENTURY CLUB.

SlHss Ol recbnJ puDllcatl0nB Mrs. DDlL
spoke 1T tho Poly chrome Bible. We
havO been wont to consider that full
equipment OF the Holy Word was com
priced in the large family bihle. a
small one for travelling, medium sized
one for common usa, u revised edition
and a Polyglot. But modern advanced
scholars have added another TO the list,
which is printed in various colored
backgrounds to exhibit it's composite
structure. Thus Genesis ia printed In
sight calors to represent the eight differ
emit autnorH; Josuha in seven, sc. The
object OF this ia to give the reader in
visible form the results OF modern
research as TO the different sources from
| which the Old Testament is made up.
This TRANSLATION is also new and from
original sources, and has slight changes
in the text. The plan originated with
| Prof. Paul Haupt Of Johns Hopkins
| University, who was assisted by DR..
| Horace Howard Furness, the Shake
speatean authority, ami by Biblical
scholars in Europe and America. The
Outlook says: ''Doubtless there are
some who will feel an objection to this
work; the Same objection to each
translation of the Bible appears from
| nge to age; jerome met it 10 preparing
tina Vulgate, Wiclif and Tyndale in
their translation into the English yer
nacular, Luther in his German Bible,
and also the committee who prepared
the revised edition. Doubtless certain
forms of words acquire kind of sacred
ness through association, which is dis
TURNED by any change Of form, but
what Paul suid respecting the gift Of
tongues 10 applicable to archaic trRnsu=
tions OF tho Bible. "EEccpt ys utter
by the tongue words eaHy 10 be under
stoou, how shall it be known what is
spoken" The work In variously com
uientad upon by religious and other
journals. That the hard working Bible
tranalDtorS are not tine only marks for
the keen shafts Of the critics is proved
by the protest of the gentle Quakers
against tine author of "Hugh Wynne, :"
which ia considered by the Friends
lntelligeucer as an njust thrust at
the Quaksrs as neople and at their
religious Hystem. sis il fair or true to
represent John Wynne as type of the
Quaker father? Is there any class of
society, under an form Of religion where
the domestic relations haye bean more
often beautiful than among the
Friends?" But it is with DR..
Mitrhel's evident preference for a
military hero that he lntelligencer
most spiritedly deals. THE theory that
peaceable nsn are mean, and only those
who are ready 10 fight are truly genteel,
that sobriety ~ ignohle while only Sir
Toby Belchs cakes and ale make life
worth living is not new. it has been
maintained in Philadelphia for fully
two centuries. William Penn had
scarcely essayed his experiment of q
peace keeping and clean living common
wealth, when others came and sought
to depose him 10 favor of themselves. ~
In II review OF foreign politics Mrs.
L. q. Kent alluded to decree lately
issued by the PruHsian government
forbidding the future attendance oil
foreigners in the Berlin Technical High
school, which has caused consterna
, lion among foreign students in Ger
many, aa it is doubtless the forerunnei
of others excluding them from all simi
/ | lar institutions. If this Ia done Ger
/ many may feel more secure, but tbs
! result in tho great competition fol
markets will be slight, for many
| technically instructed Germans have
been forced to go abroad to make theii
training support them, and in England,
! France and the United States much
! attention is being given to the de
|
schools.
Mrs. Walling and Mrs. Thatche
described the 50th anniversary OF thu
4 Woman'a Suffrage Association held il
!, Washington. Mrs. Turner of tho Dove
: New Century Club was among thu
many guests present; she said thu
Dover Century Club will take muGf
pleasure in welcoming the other Della
ware clubs to the first meeting of thl
y State Federation at Dover, toward th,
last of April. She hopes for earnest
. Intelligent work from the women of tn
y State in lettering it's educational con
ditionH.
g Miss Mather explained the plans fo
proposed travelling free library TO
; circulation 10 the State by means o
b pictures and lists that were sent to he
D by thoas with whom the scheme is n
2 longer an experiment, but an established
y fact. The club proposes to start thi
. work, which. it is hoped. the Stat
y will take up in time. That one OF tn
large States appropriated S25 600 a yea
, for free travelling libraries is inspirin!
but rather appalling to little Stat
! like ours that has 40 many needs; GU
le beginning will have to be In proportion
y to our size. In country neighborhood
~ il the people cannot go to the bouBs
the books will have to go to the people
y In Wisconsin, two tn irds Of ths librarie
y are placed in farm houses and the res
~ in country stores, where the mon an
~ boys who loaf and gossip there have
10 chance TO select something beside
tobacco from the shelves whera Farr
=, ! Ballads'' iostls 1.-The Merchant {
!. Venice" and "Helen's Babies'' an
" "Bird Carols" stanu beside the mos
81 improved COOK book. Rob and hi
? Friends" has proved a favorite work
In many OF our homes the bookcase
~ are crowded with works that we migt
al al spare for those who have few or mont
a. and the library hoxes might be mad
by one of our industrial institution
In one nsighborhood the local associ;
:, tion is required to furnish its own hool
i case as this gives feeling OF owno
=. ship and interest. Otherwise the Q,
.oi pence to each community receiving
III library 10 only 81 TO cover the cost
~ transportation. The libraries hay
-, been found to be wedge for upliftir
y the communities where they are placed
lie After the close of the business ye
mt terday week the topic Of Holland WI
~, continued A paper on Dutch potter
&c by Mrs. W. II. Hill was read by Mi
~. Taylor. THE credit of making Il
wu first stoneware has besn given to &c
lie many, whence it probably passed dow
S. the Rhine to Holland and from there
N, England. In the sixteenth centu
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