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(Continued from page 702.) Some travel books-seem to be full of words. Miss Rowan. Hamilton's Both Sides of the Jordan (Jenkins, 12s. 6d.) is one : she has more than 100,000 of them. The impression of verbosity is due to what we must frankly say is bad editing. Someone should have told the author what to omit and how to present her pictures in an attractive frame. These tricks of the trade apart, there is much first-rate material in the book, descriptive, political, and archaeological. Miss Rowan- Hamilton is very severe on the French administration of Syria : we wish we could believe it was unjustified, but too many travellers confirm her *descriptions of misrule and discontent. Anyone contemplating a visit to Palestine this winter is advised to read this book. The photographs are agreeable;
but no more.
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