Considering the profound and universal reverence which Englishmen entertain'for their noble vernacular Bible, it is somewhat strange that so little care has been bestowed upon the accurate investigation of the literary history of that great work, and the career of the man whose name must ever be associated with it. It is only, indeed, within the present generation that the history of the English Bible has been treated with anything like adequate attention our older writers abound in careless and erroneous state ments on the subject, which our literary historians nu fortunately continue to repeat without inquiry; and even now, after the patient researches of Anderson, Westcott, Fry, and others, much still remains to be done in this long-neglected department of literature.