THREE MILLION WORDS
Hall Caine's colossal "Life of Christ," conceived by the author as long ago as 1890, and his main task till the day of his death in 1931, has been published by Collins. Inspired by Renan's study with the determination to write a Life of Christ "as vivid and as personal from the point of view of belief as Renan's was from the point of unbelief," it led Hall Came to a succession of pilgrimages to the Holy Land, as well as deep research into all the evidence and theories of conflicting schools of thought. Holding that no man could lay down his pen and claim to have completed such a work he refused to have the results of his labours published during his lifetime. On his death the manuscripts he left were found to total some three million words. Other hands have collated and reduced these materials to publishable proportions—a volume of 1300 pages running to 600,000 words—carrying out as faithfully as possible the scheme which Hall I Came himself had prepared.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 27
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175THREE MILLION WORDS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 27
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