A Modern Meribah. By Geraldine Kemp. (Skeffington and Son.)—The hero
of A Modern Meribah is a mysterious personage called Salvator, who founds a kind of theosophical monastery in the Spanish Pyrenees,—a peculiarly uncomfortable place, we should fancy, in which to try new experiments in religion. His creed, as far as we can discover, contains much that is both true and beautiful, but nothing very original. The second hero, an Englishman, becomes what the authoress oddly calls a "novitiate" in the monastery ; and the book is chiefly concerned with his spiritual experiences. There is a good deal that is touching in A Modern Meribah, but it seems a pity that the writer has chosen to express her thoughts in so pretentious a style.
In the "Parnassus Library of Greek and Latin Texts" (Mac- millan and Co.) we have lEschyZi Tragcedia3, edited by Lewis Campbell, MA. Professor Campbell prefixes an introduction dealing with the textual criticism of lEschylru3. He is not in- clined to adhere rigorously to the MSS. The simple fact is that they are often unintelligible, and the general reader, after all
wants something that he has a reasonable chance of under- standing.
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