From the Garden of Eden to the Crossing of the
Jordan. By Sir W. Willcocks. (Cairo : French Institute and C.M.S. Bookshop. 5s. net.)—Sir William Willeocks has beguiled his leisure with this interesting little book, in which he uses his intimate knowledge of Egypt and Mesopotamia to illustrate the narrative of Genesis and Exodus. He has convinced Professor Sayce, who contributes a Preface, that the Sinai of Exodus was almost certainly Kadesh Barnes, the modern Ain Kadis, south-east of El Arish, and not the remote mountain now called Sinai, which was far out of any route that the Hebrews are likely to have taken ; so, too, the Ararat where the Ark rested must have been very far from the Armenian mountain of that name. The author would seek the Garden of Eden above Hit on the Euphrates, or far down the river near its confluence with the Tigris, where Eridu, the oldest Sumerian city, once stood. It is a curious and ingenious work.
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