The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05

that is, something frightful, as a
spectre. or terrifying object. or ter
ror. There it is, then, the very same
WORD; so that the bugge of the night
ana the terror of the night are precisely
the same thing.
Shakespeare, by the way, makes fire.
quent use of the words bug in It's ter
rltying sense. In Winters Tale" one
reads, The bug which you would fight
me with, l seek" and Hamlet says,
such bugs and COLLINS i'm my life"
"A Bible famous for it's errors was the
so-called Brooches Bible" which re-
celved ITS name from the fact that the
seventh verse of the third clnapter of
Genesis reads as follows:
Then the eyes of them Bottle were
opened and they knewe that they were
naked; and they sewed fig leaves to-
gether and made themselves breeches. :"
In later editions the "breeches" were
modified to aprons and, although the
new word is less ridiculous than the
older, there is little doubt that to the
minds of the early translators the fig
leaves as breeches We're just as mod
est as the same foliage in the form of
aprons. The more serious name of the
''Breeches Bible" is the Geneva, be-
cause 1T is the English translation
Which was made and first published at
Geneva in 1857. The translstors were
great English divines who had fled to
Switzerland to escape the prosecutions
of bloody Queen Mary. 1t was the first
Bible printed in Roman letter and di-
vided into verses, and was the com
mon Bible prior to the King James
version.
The "Mazarin Bible" published
more than 400 years ago, was full of
errors. In an edition published 200
years later the word mot" was omit
ted from the Seventh Commandment
from which error the book received the
name of THE Wicked Bible" The
Pearl edition contains the following:
know We not the ungodly shall inherit
the kingdom of God?" Another edition
declared: "All scripture profitable for
destruction" In the printed directions
for conducting Catholic services ap-
peared the line: Here the priest will
take off his cufotte.'' The word Ca
lotte" means an ecclesiastical cap or
mitre. "Culotte" means, in broad Sax
on, a mans underclothes.
'"The Placenlakers' Bible" was print
ed A. D., 1852 and so called from a
remarkable typographical error which
occurred in Matthew V, 8; Blessed are
the placemakers," instead of peace
makers"
The "Treacle Bible" is the one in
which the balm of Gilead" Jeremiah
viii, 22) is made to read, There is no
more treacle in Galaad." "Treacle," or
''triacle," is not after all, such a blum
der, because, in the sixteenth century,
"treacle" meant any kind of an anti
dote, or a mixture which assuaged
pain. "Galaad" was, perhaps, the
compositor's mistake.
"The Rosin Bible" was printed in A.
D. 1909, and was so called because OF
an error in the same text, translated
'rosin" in the Douay versions.
queer mistake is in what is called
the "He Bible" In Ruth X, Is, the
her he" This blunder was printed
in 1911. The edition in which the
word is corrected in what is known as
the She Bible
The Pagan Bible" contains in its
illustrations some terrible anarchron-
isms. 1t was published in 1872, at the
time when the same woodcuts served
for many purposes. At the head of
st. Johns first Epistle, Chapter l, APP
pear Mount Olympus, Leda, the siren;
Daphne and Apollo. The least that can
be said of the pictures is that they are
good examples of old art.
The Wooden Leg Bible" is so call
ed from picture, where Satan, with
that conspicuous tail which belongs to
the part, supports a wooden leg. But
why of wood? There may be many sur
misses INDUCED in. One is that in the
England of that time there were nu-
merous soldiers who were tramps, and
some had wooden legs and bad traits.
The Servant Bible" makes the error
Of printing servant" for serpent" in
the third chapter of Genesis, thus
Now, the servant was more subtle
than any beast of the field"
THE Thumb Bible" was printed in
1907 in Aberdeen. 1t is Bible of
small dimensions, and is one inch
square and half an inch thick.
THE Printers Bible" was issued in
1902 A laundering typo made King
David exclaim that printers Onstead
of princes) prosecuted him without
cause" See Psalms cxix, 1871
At the Clarendon Press, in 1917, a
Bible was printed which was known
as the Vinegar Bible on account of
the title of the twentieth chapter of
St. Luke, in which the Parable of the
Vineyard" is printed the Parable of
the Vinegar" TO show how dangerous
it is to assert infallibility while correct
ing the press, it may be mentioned that
in the 'Curiocities photographers,
published at Paris in 1S47, and from
which l have derived several of these
printed vineyards" The Vinegar BIZ
Bile" has also other errors, and, in spite
of its splendid typography and gen.
eral beauty, it was condemned and
met with public disfavor, and got the
further name of "A Basketful Of Err
rors." from it's being printed by John
Basket of oxford.
The Judas Bible has a bad typo.
graphical error. substituting Judas for
The Savior: Then cometh Judas with
them into a place called Gethsemane."
The "Murderers' Bible" published IN
1901. contains an error in the sixteenth
verse of the Epis'le of Jude, the word
"murderers" being used instead of
"murmurers.
"Wierix's Bible" contains a plate by
John Wierix, representing the feast OF
Dives. with Lazarus at his door. In
the rich mans banqueting room there
is a dwarf playing with a monkey. to
contribute to the merriment OF the
company according to the custom
among people Of rank in the sixteenth
century.
The caxton Memorial Bible" was
issued in 1877. The remarkable thing
about II is that II was wholly printed