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Travel - Pictures from Palestine. By James Wells, D.D. (Isbister and Co.)—These

"pictures" are very cleverly drawn as regards the work both of pen and pencil. The pen, perhaps, is the more realistic, the pencil the more attractive, of the two elements which combine so effectively. "One Simon a Tanner" and "An Abraham in Rags" are very picturesque figures indeed, but what are we to say of the dirty, lying, and thieving sheik whom the travellers encountered near Lachish ? Another excellent figuring of man and nature is "The Tents at Pella." With this we may couple the admirable account of the Sea of Galilee. Often 56 this hae

been described, there is something fresh in what Dr. Wells has to say about it. Altogether this is a very attractive volume. In its modest compass it gives as much as many more pretentious books.