Travel in the First Century after Christ. By Caroline A.
J. Skeet. (Cambridge University. Press. 5s.)—Miss Skeet, who publishes in this volume the Gibson Prize essay, has collected great amount of information about ancient travel, and arranged it in an attractive manner. We may .read in these pages about the motives of travel—much the same then as now—business, research, and pleasure; about the travelling classes; about the 'great roads and routes, whether by land or water, the latter having the two great divisions of river and sea; about the difficulties and dangers that the voyager had to encounter; and about other cognate matters. Some things remain, and doubtless will remain, obscure. How, for instance, were ships provisioned for a voyage? What would we not give for the account-book of the steward of an Alexandrian passenger ship ? Bat it is always the same ; the things which no one thought it worth while to write down are what we want to know. What is known may he found here.
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