Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund: January, 1907. (38
Conduit Street. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. P. G. Baldensperger's "Immovable East" and Mr. W. E. Jennings-Bramley's "Bedouin of the Sinaitic Peninsula" are continuations of highly interesting series. In the first we find, amongst other things, an account of gleaning. The practice has almost disappeared here, and that within the memory of many persons still living. In the East it goes on very much as it did in the days of Ruth. Bedouin life forms an unattractive picture. The occupation of every man is theft. One good result it brings about ; riches are little accounted of ; a man of property may be a beggar the next morning. There is a paper on a Jewish settlement in South Egypt which existed in the fifth century B.C. A great store of papyri has come to light. The whole Statement is, as usual, full of valuable matter. We note that the excavations at Gezer, which have been so fertile of results, have been a great drain on the Society's resources.
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