The Land of the Monuments. By Joseph Pollard. (Hodder and
Stoughton.)—Mr. Pollard went up the Nile as far as Wady Haifa, and after crossing the desert to the Second Cataract, made his way back. He describes what he saw—this includes also the Canal, the Pyramids, and the usual round of Egyptian sights—in a pleasant, unaffected way, always bearing in mind the connection between the monuments of Egypt and the records of the Bible. The scene of the Exodus he places, we see, between the Bitter Lakes and Lake Timsah. He may be right, and he certainly has high Egyptological authorities on his side, but the theory has a certain look of accommodation to modern difficulties of belief. The general reader cannot do better than take Mr. Pollard as his guide if, without having much previous preparation of knowledge, he wants to make himself fairly well acquainted with the past and present of Egypt.
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