There is a good deal besides ancient history in this
most interesting and well-written little book. It is intended to supply for general readers the information obtained by the Ordnance Survey of 1868-9, and published in a costly form in five folio volumes. We cannot touch upon several other interesting subjects which are included in it, but wish spe'cially to direct attention to the very clear and succinct account given in pp. 106 to 119 of the controversy regarding the Sinaitic rock inscriptions, which the writer considers now at an end. It is rather disappointing, after so much interest has been excited about them, to find that they have no special value as antiquities, being probably no older than the second or third century of the Christian era,—and the work, during an idle hour, of the miners and others employed thereabout. The value of this well-filled little volume is enhanced by a neat map, and some few illustrations.
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