Apart from this there isa the studious avoidance of "Hollywood 5," except for what is un avoid able, as in His appearances after the resurrection; and it would be a very cantankerous critic who could find fault with so beautiful and impressive a device. All through the story those scenes appear: specially to have been chosen in which no "trick" would be needed, And how exquisite some of these Scenes axe—the opening of the eyes of the blind child, the purging of Mary Magdalene (some little trickery here with the Seven Dead? ly Sing, but to be applauded" not condemned) the woman taken in adultery, It is impossible, we this, to speak too highly of the beauty with which each and all of these are presented. Nor need anyone fear a falling off a" we ed by the soldiers, the Way of the Cross, the crucifixion, resurrection We find it hard to yyone could pick holes. here ig neither haste, ior scamping; there is no trace ye sentiment or rhetorical appeal thing but the simple, poignant facts of the Gospel story so present ed as best to enable them to speak for themselves.
A few liberation have been taken with the text. Pilot's wife, in the Gospel itself, sends a message to liber husband," she does not actually appear in the judgment hall as she doos in the film. Simon the Gyrenean was "compelled" to bear the eros, we read; he does not spontaneously. "And the second temptation is taken out of its connexion and away front the mountain top, and occurs when Christ has withdrawn Himself from—the multitude because they would make Him King by force, and is hiding ina temple. colonnade. Dr. Warner's indication that the gift of "all the kkagdoms of the world" was a real temptation was here very telling. For the rest, readers must decide for themselves whether they like these liberties or not. To they certainly seem no blemish, rather the reverse,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.