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The Syriac Chronicle of Zachariah of Mitylene. Translated into English

by F. J. Hamilton, D.D., and E. W. Brooks, M.A. (Methuen and Co. 12s. 6d.)—This is the third volume of Pro• fessor Bury's valuable series of Byzantine texts. The author was a Syrian monk, more or less a contemporary of Justinian, and his work is chiefly a record of theological speculation, or when it is historically valuable, a commentary on the troubled Church history of the time. It casts a certain amount of light on Justinian's Cwsaropaptsm, and Theodora is referred to throughout in terms of affection. Otherwise there is little to interest any one except the specialist, unless it be in the curious account of the pigmies and the dog-men and the Amazons who dwelt beyond the Caspian, which proves that ethnological science had made small advance between the days of Herodotus and Zechariah.