The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-02

quotations from the scriptures. Two
! persons who discussed the subject diff
I fered widely as TO the number OF books
/ thus named. and recourse to a library
/ catalogue was necessary to settle the
question
/ As HOwells is the author who quotes
most freely from Shakespeare in his
I titles, so Sir Walter Besant was found
/ to have quoted most directly from the
/ Bible in naming his books. Five at
least of his works are of this kind;
| The Demoniac" Children Of Gideon, -
/ The City of Refuge" the Lament OF
! Dives" and The AIabaster Box.
Israel Zangwill has written of The
Mantle of Elijah" and They That
/ Walk in Darkness" both Old Tesla
ment illusions, as is natural. At least
| one Of Henry LetOn Merriman's books
IS named from a scTiptural phrase. In
heCar S Tents a reference to Psalm
cxX sand still another, From One
/ Generation to Another" is SO nearly
like the phrase which David often en-
ploys as to seem almost a misquota-
ton.
Mrs Flora Annie Steele has taken
two of her titles from the Bible. One
is from Genesis, ON the Face of the
Waters, and d second from Exodus.
The Hosts Of the Lord s" Two of John
Albion w. TOurgee's books also belong
IN this class-"Bricks Without Straw
and Figs and Thistles." Edgar Faw-
cett writes Of Purple and Fine Linen"
ana Thinking CymbalS." Hall Gaines
The ScapegOat' and "A Son of
Hagar' are both suggested by the book
OF Genesis. Mary ChoImondaIey's "Red
Pottage' is a familiar allusion which is
e!sO from Genesis. r. F. Benson. au-
thor Of 'DOdo, has a novel called
The Judgment Books" Marion Har-
land, prolific writer though she is. has
given but one of her books a scripturaI
title. This. From Ny youth ITp-' will
be recognized as a phrase Of the rich
young ruler in his conversation with
Christ
Anthony Trollope has called one of
his books An Eye for an Eve" quot
ms from the Jewish law as written in
EXODUS, and also as referred to by
Christ in his sermon on the mount
Arel1e -Chanler's book title, The
Quick or the Dead" is not an exact
quotation. but most certainly has been
suggested by the expression the quick
and the dead" found in the Acts, the
Second Epistle to Timothy and the
First Epistle of St. Peter, and embodied
in the apostles creed. Gilbert Parker's
Seats of the Mighty" may also have
been suggested by the words in the
Magnificat He hath put down the
mighty from their seats and hath ex-
dAtGQ them OF low degree
-Conquering and to Conquer" the
title of one of Mrs. Charles books. is
found in the sixth chapter of REVEAL
tiOns. Kipling's Many Inventions"
may seem to have a modern rather
than a Biblical sound, yet these two
words are found in Ecclesiastes, sew
enth chapter and twenty-ninth verse.
g 8 g.
At least three writer's have used the
expression THE Wages Of Sim as a
book title. The best known of these
is probably Hugh Conway" C. H.
Fargus), whose paper covered novels
were read with trembling eagerness be
hind those large, convenient geogra-
plies (now, unhappiIy for the young
disappearing so rapidly, fifteen years
ago.
A host of almost unknown books be-
longs in the category of the scripturaI-
~ named:
Black, but COmeIy," Melville.
The Golden Calf" BOyesen.
But a Philistine," Virginia Town
send.
BY Way That They Knew Not"
Wellington.
Goals of Fire" Murray
The Elect Lady" Mcdonald.
Far Above Rubies. Riddeu
My Brothers Keeper" Amy 10th
"A shff-necked Generation" L. B.
WalfOrd.
AT the Eleventh Hour" Edwards
RhOda BTOughtOn may have thought
she was quoting from the Bible when
she named one of her books "COmeth
Up as a Flower" but the nearest ap-
proach to this expression is Man COM
eth forth as a flower" found in the
fourteenth chapter of Job.
Finally, there is one book with a title
quite in accord with Mrs Nancy r.
Wings belief as to the worlds honesty
"All Men Are Liars''-the clause being
part Of the eleventh verse of the 126th
Psalm. David's way of putting it.
however, was: Il said in my haste,
All men are liars.