Now that the series of 'Songs of the Bible' has come to an end, an interesting new series of readings begins. This is the tercentenary year of John Bunyan, the 'inspired tinker,' most English of writers, whose 'Pilgrim's Progress' is not only a fine spiritual autobiography, but a magnificent piece of rugged, virile, unaffected prose; the prose of a man who wrote for the sake of what he had to say without much caring how he said it, but whose style springs from passionate sincerity and the influence of long familiarity with the great English of the Bible. The readings from Bunyan will continue until Christmas, and include many of the most famous incidents in the journey of Christian from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
(Se also page 19)