This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... QUEEN ESTHER IN the days of King Ahasuerus, a monarch who reigned over a hundred and twentyseven provinces from India to Ethiopia, some strange things came to pass. Ahasuerus was a Persian monarch. The kings of Persia were very strong but there was one particular in which they were very weak. By a law ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... QUEEN ESTHER IN the days of King Ahasuerus, a monarch who reigned over a hundred and twentyseven provinces from India to Ethiopia, some strange things came to pass. Ahasuerus was a Persian monarch. The kings of Persia were very strong but there was one particular in which they were very weak. By a law of their kingdom they could never change a word they had once said or a law they had once made. If they made a mistake it had to stand, and this often gave them great trouble because they were as liable to make mistakes as any other people. Ahasuerus was a very mighty king. In the third year of his reign he made a great feast and invited to it the noblemen and princes of die hundred and twenty-seven provinces and all the great courtiers and fine people of Persia and Media. He kept this feast up day after day for many days, finally ending it with a great banquet to crown the whole, the tables being spread in the garden and in the court of the palace at Shushan. Everything here was very beautiful. There were rich hangings of white, green and blue, fastened by cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble. The divans and couches on which the guests reclined were of gold and silver, standing on a pavement of mosaic composed of red, blue, white and black marble. Everything was beautiful and sumptuous. The guests drank the royal wine from goblets of pure gold, no two alike. While this feast was going on, Vashti, the queen, made a feast in the house of the women for her friends. It was not customary in that land for men and women to sit at dinner together. In Oriental lands now, in Persia or India or China, the women of a household stay by themselves and never see any man unless he is closely related to them. I explain this...
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Add this copy of The Story Bible to cart. $26.93, good condition, Sold by I Love Books Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingsport, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1905 by The Christian Herald.
I bought this book because I thought the pictures would be special. They were made by a group known as the Decorative Designers. But the illustrations are bland and wimpy. I think part of the problem is because the images are too small, way too small to show very much detail. And with the art deco or art nuveau styles it's all about the details. Perhaps that group did some good work but this book doesn't show it off.
And, since Bible picture books for kids are mostly about the pictures, I was disappointed. This book is popular for some reason and I thought it was because of the images.
The text is ok, nothing wrong with it. Bible stories are always good. But if you want an old Bible picture book I'd look for Edmund Filmer's The Story of Jesus instead. There are many others which are better than this one.
