Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . Latin Bible, and to spread a know-ledge of it among the common peopleby an organization of trained missionarypreachers. This object he achieved, buta question has of late years been raisedby Father Gasquet whether the Englishversions which have come down to usare really the versions made by the Re-former and his friends. Father Gasquet is church and university, butthe old home speech, bearingthe marks of its longstruggle with the invader, isfast winning its way as aliterary dialect, and makingready for its public baptismby Ch
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . Latin Bible, and to spread a know-ledge of it among the common peopleby an organization of trained missionarypreachers. This object he achieved, buta question has of late years been raisedby Father Gasquet whether the Englishversions which have come down to usare really the versions made by the Re-former and his friends. Father Gasquet is church and university, butthe old home speech, bearingthe marks of its longstruggle with the invader, isfast winning its way as aliterary dialect, and makingready for its public baptismby Chaucer. Feudal Eng-land is settling down into anindependent nationality, andthe mediaeval sway of the World - Monarch and ofthe World-Priest is be-ing weakened on every side. The ageis restless, dissatisfied, and feverish, andwe seem to catch a reflection of its spiritin a figure which stands out head andshoulders above the crowd. It is thefigure of John Wycliffe, well called thelast of the Schoolmen and the first ofthe Reformers. Marked out among his brother theo-. William ; After an engraving by W. Humphrys contends that they were the work ofWyeliffes life - long antagonists, thebishops, and that the Wycliffe transla-tion has been lost. All that can be saidhere is that the balance of expert opinionis against this contention, and that in thegreat edition <»f L850 by Forshal and Mad-den we possess just what we have hithertobelieved ourselves to possess, namely, an 522 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. English Bible of 1382, partly from thehand of Wycliffe and partly by Nicholasof Hereford, and also an English Bibleof 1388, which is not an independent ver-sion, but a revision of the earlier one, byJohn Purvey, WyclifTes curate at Lut-terworth. To us, we confess, it appears very im-probable that if Wycliffe and his friendshad known of any previously existingtranslation they would have remainedsilent on the subject, especially if thetranslation had been made by the t
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