We have received the first volume (containing the issue for
the half-year ending May) of Book-Lore : a Magazine devoted to Old- Time Literature. (Elliot Stock.)—" It is," to quote from the preface, "a large and increasing class that Book-Lore addresses, appealing to those who are interested in the byways of literature, to the seeker after that which is curious ; to book-lovers, book-buyers, and book- sellers ; and to all those who delight in pondering over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.'" The first article is a curious collection of Scriptural blunders. The famous omission of " not " from the Seventh Commandment (which cost the printer £300) is not a solitary instance of a curiously unhappy blunder. "The fool bath said in his heart there is a God," is attributed to "a
Bible printed in the reign of Charles I." ; but no date is given, and the story, though repeated by Nye, is doubtful. The first Bible printed in Ireland (1716) changed "sin no more" into "sin on more." An Oxford Bible (1792) attributed the Denial to St. Philip. The "Murderers' Bible" (Oxford, 1801) printed Jade 16, "these are murderers," instead of "these are murmurers." The "Treacle Bible" had, "Is there no treacle in Gilead P" the "Place-makers' Bible," "Blessed are the place-makers " ; and the "Printers' Bible," "Printers have persecuted me without a cause." This is a specimen of the mine of curious information which this volume, with its appro- priate, dignified exterior, supplies.
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