7 SEPTEMBER 1934, Page 7

Dean Inge, I see, told the Modern Churchmen's Conference on

Monday that in his young days one found a copy of the Bible not only in every guest-room in private houses, but in many hotel-bedrooms. As a matter of fact one frequently found it in a still more private apartment, but that rather singular practice seems to have disappeared—thanks, no doubt, to the increasing rush of modern life. JANUS.