The most interesting paper in the March number of the
Expositor is the second of a series, by the Rev. George Adam Smith, on "The Geography of the Holy Land," dealing with the Low Hills, or Shephelah, from which it appears that in the cam- paign of 701 B.C., the Assyrian army "was smitten not, as we usually imagine, round the walls of Jerusalem, for the Bible nowhere implies that, but under Sennacherib himself, in the main camp and head-quarters, which either were still in the Southern Shephelah, or, if we may believe Herodotus, had crossed the desert to Pausium, and were overtaken in that pestiferous region that has destroyed so .many armies." Professor Cheyne's paper on "Dr. Driver's Introduction to the Old-Testament Litera- ture" will be found valuable by those—and they must be many —who differ from his views.
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