15 APRIL 1938, Page 21

THE ENGLISH BIBLE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — The

four hundredth anniversary of Coverdale's Great Bible falls this year. I have been waiting and hoping to hear that to mark the event a reprint of the Great Bible would be published. Surely no other form of celebration would be so effective in its appeal or so lasting in its effect. Last year I heard the Bishop of Plymouth read the lessons of the day from Tyndale's translation, and I was struck by the great forcibleness of his words—superior it seemed to me where they differed—to the authorised version. I believe a reprint would, in these days when so many people are interested in the past, find a ready sale. Will you not use your great influence to induce some publisher to undertake this ?—