Reading the description of the Chariot Race from
'Ben Hur ,' by Wallace
SUCH is the power of the film nowadays that to most people' Ben Hur ' is now known primarily as a movie story. But a generation before
Hollywood began to build amphitheatre sets in readiness for the film, Lew Wallace 's book was known in countless British homes, and it is from the book that Miss Freshwater will read this afternoon.
