Palestine Exploration Fund : Quarterly Statement. (38 Conduit Street, W.
2s. 6d.)—This number contains some further details about Gezer, especially a description, with ground plan, of a con- siderable house of the Hellenistic period. The discussion of the Hebrew calendar inscription is carried on. But perhaps the most interesting paper is that by Mr. W. A. Crawley-Boevey on "The Recovery of the 'Holy Places' in Jerusalem?' He makes the point that when the memorial Churches of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ were first set up, there was no anxiety in the founders to take for their erection the actual sites, even if they could have discovered them. It was not the way of the time to care for this kind of exactitude. The most convenient spot was chosen. And there was a certain good sense in the idea. It might be argued that it was the very essence of these great events that their importance was not local. Local greatness must be honoured on the spot; the "Son of man" has His shrines everywhere. Mr. Hanauer gives us "Further Notes from Damascus" ; Mr. Stewart Macalister concludes his account of the travels of Rauwolff in Palestine (1573), and also gives us "Some Miscellaneous Tales of the Fellahin." The student of folk-lore will find them very interesting, when he reads, for instance, how Reynard gets the best of things in Palestine as elsewhere.
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