"LIGHT OF THE WORLD."
"Presented to St. Paul's. {Received 8.55 a-m.) LONDON, June 27. ' Mr. Charles Booth has given Mr. Holman Hnntfs famous picture, " The Light 2ihe World," to St. Paul's Cathedral. ["The Light of the World" will be _dl remembered by New Zealanders from the tour of the picture through this coun- ■ try on its journey round the Empire last 'jit" The first "Light of the World," it jsffj ie recalled, is in the chapel of Keble cJlege, Oxford, and it was the refusal of the college authorities to permit its 'iemoval -fibat led Mr. Charles Booth to ejamission its great painter to execute » similar picture, though, of course, not .jas-e copy of its predecessor, from ■v&xh. it differs in several striking pargjnlais Mr- Booth, who has acted so generonsly in making this famous picture jinffiar throughout the British Empire, fcHke yell-known sociologist and philanjbiopist, whose "life and Labour of the people in London" and oiner books have lag been standard works with the social pfoimer.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 153, 28 June 1907, Page 5
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