CRESTON HOTEL CRESTON, B. C. je) (3) FULLY LICENSED Dining Room in Connection Headquarters for Tourists when in Creston oa Proprietor: JOHN SHEAN BUS DEPOT COFFEE SHOP | EVERYTHING OF THE BEST SERVED IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY All White Help ; CRESTON B.C. - KING GEORGE HOTEL R. McNEAL and W. A. GRAVES Proprietors * GOOD ROOMS * Licensed Premises * CRESTON Garden Bakery & Confectionery Anton Falkus and William Lick, Props. BREAD, CAKES and PASTRIES, TEAS, SANDWICHES, TOURISTS’ SPECIALS CRESTON, B. C. Creston Sawmills Limited * Manufacturers and Dealers in Boxes of All Kinds Rough and Dressed Lumber Cedar Posts and Poles Building Supplies * Creston, British Columbia Page Eighty-two city of Vancouver, it would be a fascinat- ing page of history. However, the signa- ture and dates on its cover give us some clue of its owners. John Nininatte pre- sented it to How-Chapel Church August 9th, 1666, a year marked by the great fire of London. It may have been a thank-offering for his escape from the plague the year before—who knows? For everyone, the church was their Community Centre, where they found the most entertainment. There they saw miracle plays, their “Little Theatre” re- hearsing scenes from Bible stories. But now, for the first time, they were allowed to read for themselves. So there was excitement in the air, when they flocked to see this popular book, with its up-to- the-minute maps, genealogies and calen- dars. Fancy whirls and curlicues were the fashion of the day. Each paragraph be- gan like our modern posters, with capital letters in fancy dress, while illuminations around the lettering gave them some clue to the story. Its title page was such a wealth of exquisite woodcuts that present day imitators were quite baffled. As they looked up to the great stained glass win- dows, their picture papers, they read at a glance the same stories, in vividly col- oured illustrations. So the stone floor in front of the read- ing desk was worn down by the book- queues, and the iron chain was thin from constant use. Until, in April 20th, 1766, when Daniel Cope presented a new Bible to this parish, and with the appreciative eye of an antique collector he took the original Bible home to add to his own library. Free from chains, it rested on a book- shelf of the old manor house for a hun- dred years more. Then it saw another threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars, as grave a threat to England’s shores as the peril of invasion in 1940. Broucutr to New Wortp Some time after Joseph Cope of Ross signed his signature on its cover in 1845, it was uprooted from the old home, and packed with the family treasures to sail westward in the high tide of interest into the New World. Like a ghost appearing from the mist of forgotten things, the “clyppe” on this book cover survives. The hand-cut square of copper to which the old chain was clipped may be mistaken for a mere orna- ment and seem meaningless in the library today, yet for 440 years “clyppes’’ were as necessary in the routine equipment as the reader’s card is now. About the time when the first bookcase was backed against the wall, instead of at right angles and a great invention, this “clyppe’” was cut:from a large sheet of copper by a special pair of shears kept on hand for the purpose. The swivel attached to the end link prevented the chain from twisting and breaking. Wonderfully preserved, its large cover is 17 inches long and 11% inches wide of thick boards joined together by strips of calf inside, and fastened by iron tacks Covered with soft brown calf, of the mel. low beauty which one only finds in the ancient hand-binding, it is ornamented with antique gilt in the Lyonese style, While it is a copy of the original trans. lation, yet it stands out with its own dis. tinction, for it is known as the “Greg She Bible” to distinguish it from the “Fe Bible” of 1611. This curious nickname comes from the error in the Original translation, when the famous printer tp the King, Robert Parker, confused the masculine and feminine gender in the passage Ruth III:15 “and he went into the citie”’. There is perhaps one thing that is even more surprising, and that is, after 334 years the ink of this record of early print ing in old English lettering and ancient verbiage is as black as though it were the work of yesterday. On the title page, the curious woodcuts of the Twelve Apostles and, quaintly enough, the tents of the twelve tribes of Israel, each with armor ial bearings of its particular tribe, are still clear on a background of soft, creamy, rag paper. In the fast-moving world of today, this book treasure reminds us of the age when beautiful bookcraft was all the rage. As- tonishingly exquisite manuscripts with letters of gold were made by men who often spent years in the making of a single _ book. Made entirely by hand, with quill and paint brush, they were so costly and rare that one Bible was worth as much as a farm. Few could buy them. The man who was too poor to buy a whole Bible scrimped and saved for years to buy only one precious page. They some times actually exchanged two or three loads of hay for a part of a page. Conse quently, all books were on chains. This antique book gives a perspective to the western reader, who has so little opportunity to see old relics of the past, as nowadays books are taken so much for granted, without any consideration being given to their development. So it rests with us to safeguard, while there is still time, all old books which have beet brought to this new country by our early settlers. TO DEFEAT PICKPOCKEUS A NEW method has been adopted by Scotland Yard to stop the increased ac tivity of pickpockets and pilferers, who apparently work in small gangs in certaill districts of London. Selected detectives and plainclothes police have been issued with small buff-coloured maps with little groups of red, mauve and green spots dotted across the surface. These spots mark the scene of each of the 212 cases _of petty theft carried out in London if the first four months of this year. It these areas detectives are now on watch) and already one gang has been broken up. THE SHOULDER STRAP