Herbert asked whether the Chancellor intended to put a tax on Bibles and prayer books. Would he wish to down to history as the first Chancellor who had put a tax on_ the Word of God As Sir Kingsley Wood y devout Wesleyan. this was shrewd knock.
Mr. Herbert was in good form. He it that if the tax killed the trashy Dooks and enabled the good ones to survive, there would be something to be said for it. But the reverse would be the case, as it was the profits on the trash which enabled publishers to take the isk of occa: lishing a good book,
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