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Village Life in Palestine. By the Rev. G. Robinson Lees,

B.A. , F.R.G.S., Vicar of St. Andrew's, Lambeth. With 50 Illustrations from Photographs. (Longmans and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is a very useful and pleasant book. It endeavours, by means of a series of simple but intimate studies of the peasants or Fellaheeu of the villages of Palestine, to put a. little life and reality into people's conception of the scenes and incidents of Old and New Testament story. The book is full of information and instruc- tion, and the abundant photographic illustrations testify to the directness of the observation to which it owes its existence.