Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 15: September, 1912 Eminent men have repeatedly declared that if they were cast alone on an island and had to live there for an indefinite time with only one book of their own choice to read, that book would be the Bible. And the innumerable lists of best books selected this half century have invariably included the Hebrew Scriptures as among the first and most important. Now, the New Testament, being part of this volume, is therefore part of the most valuable literary and historical set of documents that has come to us out of the past. Judged as literature merely, the Old Testament is perhaps greater than the New. Carlyle thought the Book of Job the finest literary product of the ages, and most critics would agree with him in this. But the New Testament, though it also contains writings of supreme literary value, has had incomparably greater influence in the world than the Old Testament. The New Testament is not, properly speaking, one book, but many books. It consists of some twenty-seven books, written by seven different writers. The books, given in the order in which they appear in the accepted version are: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, First Thessalonians, Second Thessalonians, First Timothy, Second Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, First Peter, Second Peter, First John, Second John, Third John, Jude, and Revelation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.