I have been reading the Old Testament.

It is magnificent.

In the mass of its incoherence it has a series of the most marvellous stories.

Do you remember--" etc.

Then he came home and had tea with me, revelling, in the meantime, on having discovered the Bible! I cannot feel that 'The Translation of a Savage' has any significance beyond the truthfulness with which I believe it describes the transformation, or rather the evolution, of a primitive character into a character with an intelligence of perception and a sympathy which is generally supposed to be the outcome of long processes of civilisation and culture.