25 FEBRUARY 1938, Page 3

The English Bible The fourth centenary of the issue of

the royal order directing that the Bible should be placed in all English Churches is being celebrated this year. In that connexion The Spectator will publish on the four Fridays in March four articles on " The English Bible." The first, which will appear next week, is on " The English Bible : Its Ancestry," by Sir Frederic Kenyon, late Director of the British Museum, and will cover in outline the period from the first century A.D. to the publication of Tyndale's and Coverdale's English Bibles in the sixteenth century. The second article is on " The Old Testament," by Dr. Edwyn Bevan, the third on " The New Testament " by Professor C. H. Dodd, and the fourth on " The Bible and the English People," by Dr. Ernest Barker.