Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-20

Special Correspondence.
r ONDON Jan. lO.-After uyilg In
vain for three years to persuade
the authorities Of the oxford and
~ Cambridge university presses to
consent 10 the omission from reprints
Of the authorized version OF the Bible
it's ridiculously false and fusome dedi-
cation 10 King James, the Rev DR.,
Dawson Burns appealed to the Chris
ton public, a few days ago. TO assist
him In getting these authorities to
yield to the force Of reason and re-
nection." The appeal has been sue
Ctss(ul DR.. Burns, who is an oitAoduN
Clergyman OF considerable standing,
has Just announced that the consent
has been given. The wonder Ia that
the most potent. grave and reverend
seienors concerned should so long have
insisted on a lot Of laudatory Hes be-
ing included In the popular version Of
The Bible Of which they have been
placed in control
As Dr. Burns points out. the actual
James the First OF England and sixth
of scotland was the direct opposite OF
the helaudcd james of the dedication
James was not Most high and
mighty prince" hut "a low, mean aud
dcspiCahlc one. he was not king OF
France as tae trauslators style him
among other things, lie was not COM
parable 70 Elizabeth as the sun N his
strength" to "a bright occidental star"
His coming to the throne was not a
great and manifold blessing but a
national calamity and his hopeful
seed' filed the land with confusion and
bloudshed. Instead OF many singular
and extraordinary graces, James had
not one ordinary grace OF body or
mind. He had not one attribute which
the epithet "kngly" Is intended to eX-
press. He was" adds Or, Burns, "a
coward by temperament and a tyrent
by. disposition. He sacrificed Raleigh
to the vengeance of SPAIN and his
despotism would have sacrificed those
liberties which England had preserved
despite Norman teUdallsm ana the wars
OF the Roses"
There IS some excuse for the authors
Of the inflated eulogy Of Kiu james.
In those days il was the proper thing
when ndictiug an opistle to a monarch
10 slobber all over him. But there Is
absolutely no excuse for the retention
OF the "Eplstle Dedcatorle' nowadays.
The Bible society for the last 20 years
have rejected 1t. Apparently they con-
slider 1t unsulted even to the spiritual
diet OF a Tamil COCllc or Iougan Is
lander II Is good tidings that 1t will
be no longer forced upon English folk.
Sir Gilbert Parker has taken such
an active part in politics Of late, both
in and out of parliament. that one
would have supposed he would have
had no time left for literary work. On
the contrary, he has accomplished a
good deal. He has almost finished the
long novel which vas commissioned by
the Harpers, year or more ago, hav-
ing now only half-a-do2en chapters or
so to complete, and has also gotten
started ON a new series of short stories.
| understand that these deal with life
on the prairies and mountains of north
ern Canada.
There has just been published in
London, at the stiff price of one guinea
or S., what must be declared as a truly
remarkable book, Handsomely Illus
trated and sumptuously gotten up II
might Well be instauced as a specimen
OF what manner of stuff the publisher
of today can be induced 10 print We're
1t not for the extreme likelihood that
Henry Il. Knipe. who Is responsible for
the work, has also borne the various
expenses connected with its appear
ance.
"Nebula TO Man" as Mr.. Knipe calls
his work, takes the form of an epic poem
and is nothing less than an attempt
to describe the evolution OF the earth
from chaos to cosmos. 1t begins In the
palaeozoic ages. when, of course. there
were some uncommonly strange menu
bers OF the animal kingdom in exist
ence, Into the habits and pursuits OF
these Mr. Knlpe goes deeply, and in
case anyone doubts his authority so to
do he has given, IN an appendix to his
book, a list of various awe-inspirrg