12 DECEMBER 1891, Page 28

Pilgrims in Palestine. By Violet Hodgkin. (G. P. Putnam's .Sons.)—This

is a story of five weeks in Palestine. From Jaffa to Jerusalem, excursions from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and Hebron, a journey through Samaria and thence to Nazareth, a visit to the Lake of Tiberias, Damascus, Baalbek, and home by Beyrout, is a brief epitome of the pilgrimage, of which Miss Hodgkin gives a convenient itinerary (which would be more convenient, by-the- way, if the distances had been added). The travellers seem to have been struck by the unhappiness visible in the faces of the people. We have a pleasant description of places of which one never tires of hearing. Nothing seems to have pleased the pilgrims more, in the way of scenery, than the Lake.