29 AUGUST 1914, Page 24

The 110th Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society

(The Bible House, s.) records, amongst other signs of the progress of this useful institution, the appearance of six new versions of one or more of the Gospels. These are respectively in Kopu, a dialect of South-West China; in Mawken, for the gypsy-like fishermen of Lower Burma ; in Manchad, spoken among the snowy peaks of Western Tibet ; in Ruanda, current among seven million negroes at the fountain of the Nile; in Addo, a dialect of Southern Nigeria ; and in Car Nicobarese. Four complete New Testaments have been issued, in tongues of Paraguay, the Straits Settlements, Papua, and the Solomon Islands, as well as a complete Bible in Bicol, one of the principal languages of the Philippines.