of travel—riding, for instance, and, where it was possible, camping
out—and preferring the unfrequented to the common route. Here he gives us his experiences. We are glad to have them, only we could wish that the form had been somewhat simpler. They are not of the out-of-door kind, as far as their literary quality is con- cerned ; they have a strong flavour of the study. But they are distinctly an addition to the literature of Palestinian travel. l?r. Van Dyke has his own beliefs and feelings, and he does not hesi- tate to express thorn. Jerusalem does not appeal to him, for all the profound interest of its history. "One impression deepens in my mind with every hour : this was never Christ's city It was not here that Jesus found the men and women who believed in Him." Curiously enough, of Palestinian cities there is not one which seems to have impressed him more favourably than Nazareth. Well, Jerusalem did for a day or so acknowledge the Christ Nazareth, as far as we know, never. Naturally, he finds at the Lake of Galilee what he seeks. It had ninny attrac- tions for him ; one, for which he has no need to apologise, that he found fish there that would rise to his flies. "How surprised the old fisherman was," he says, "when he saw the fish jumping at these tiny hooks with feathers." "The Springs of Jordan" furnish the subject of another pleasing chapter. There are some attractive illustrations in colour.
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