Dr. von Peters has done a great service to Catholic Bible study by reprinting the authentic Rheims and Douay versions, which are the most accurate translation of the Latin Vulgate ever made and have been unavailable for so long. The last officially published edition of the original three-volume Douay-Rheims Bible was a facsimile reprint by Scolar Press in the mid-1970's. But the most helpful thing Dr. von Peters has done is to modernize the spelling, which was an obstacle to reading the photo reproductions of the 1582 edition. He has been careful not to change any words or repunctuate the sentences; only the archaic spellings have been revised to make them more legible to the modern reader. The copious commentary of the Rheims Fathers is a wealth of exegesis and apologetics, and the translation's faithfulness to the Vulgate cannot be surpassed. ( )