25 MARCH 1911, Page 17

THE AUTHORISED VERSION OF THE BIBLE AND THE DEDICATION TO

JAMES I.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Many students of the Bible must have read with satis- faction your support of Canon Beeching's admirable proposal that undeniably mistranslated words in the "Authorised Version" should be corrected. May I make a small suggestion . on an outside matter ? Could not the fulsome dedication to King James I. cease to be printed? The custom of the day required it, but it is utterly unworthy of being bound up with the Holy Scriptures. Surely 300 years of the preface is