Strong to Suffer : a Story of the Jews. By
E. Wynne. (Cassell and Co.)—This story is laid in the time of Hadrian. The character of this Emperor, his many great qualities, marred as they were by a certain superficiality, showing itself especially in a remarkable vanity, is one of the beet things in the book. Some careful study has evidently been bestowed on it but we suspect a want of grounding in the knowledge. " Tyrannus Rufus" is a curious name for the Roman Governor of Juda3a, and "Prefect" would hardly have been hia title, though the word is used generally to denote high office. It is incorrect, again, not to give any other name than Marcus to the young Roman who plays so important a part in the story. It is like introducing an English soldier with no other name than " Charles" or " Thomas ;" and why is Antinous (whose name is curiously spelt "Antiniias") quite gratuitously mentioned, when he had been drowned in the Nile before Hadrian visited Judaea? The story begins with a precise date, "The sun was setting 1756 years ago," and the error might have been avoided with very little trouble.
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