To the Editor of the Sm,—In your leading article of Sept. 27th fam glad to observe some remarks on the importance of having the Scriptures translated in such a manner as not to offend the taste of the learned men of Chi It is however a pity that the 'Chinese literate of considerable celebrity" whose ease you mention, should have met with one of the worse translated versions of the Bible; and it will be still more unfortunate if, through his mischance, your readers should' be led to suppose that ther translation of the Scriptures into classical Chinese. If the copy he met with was one of the old versions by Morrison or Marehman or Gutzlaff, or the recent Ameican version of Bridgman and Cutbertson, then his far from appreciative opinion of it" is not to be wondered at.
But there is one version expressed in good classical language, that namely published by the Brit. and For. Bible Socioty, (of which Mr. Wylie is the agent in Shanghai), which is also used by the German missionaries, and by a considerable and increasing number of the Americans, This version, while remarkably good as a translation of the inspired original, is at the same time clothed in a style so correct ana beautiful that no one need be ashamed to butit into the hands of the most learned Chinaman, Iremain, Yours very truly,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.