Palestine of the Jews. By Norman Bentwich. (Kogan Paul. 6s.
net.)—The author, who visited Palestine before the war and revisited it with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, gives an encouraging accotuit of the numerous little Jewish colonies founded during the last forty years. He remarks on the success of the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, though the German Jews just before the war tried to impose German on the Palestine schools. He emphasizes, too, the prosperity of the agricultural colonies al a whole, showing that the Jew can fans if he wilL In 1914, twelve thousand Jews were settled in forty colonies, comprising about 100,000 acres. As only eight per cent. of the land is fully cultivated, there is plenty of room for more. Mr. Bentwieh declares that the Jewish settlers and the native Syrian peasantry understand one another, and that depopulated Palestine needs immigrants of both races.
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