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The British and Foreign Bible Society has published its hundred

and seventeenth Report (Bible House, Is.), contain- ing the usual interesting accounts of the Society's work in many lands. Bolshevik Russia is at present closed to the Bible, but the Society, at the request of the Orthodox Patriarch, is printing an edition of St. John's Gospel in the new Russian orthography for circulation in that unhappy country when circumstances permit. The Society's Bibles or parts of Bibles are now pub- lished in 538 languages ; among the ten now versions is St. John's Gospel in Patpatar, which is spoken in the centre of New Ireland, in the Pacific.