The Churches and Monasteries of Egypt. Attributed to Abfi Silet,
the Armenian. Translated by B. T. A. Evetts, M.A., with Notes by Alfred J. Butler. (Clarendon Press.)—The MS. from which this translation has been made is unique. It is in the National Library of Paris, having been purchased in the seven- teenth century. The date of the book is the early part of the thirteenth century, that of the copy a little more than a hundred years later. Though it may be called a copy, it is really an abridgment, made, the translator thinks, with but little skill. One of its chief points of interest is the light which it throws on the relations between the Coptic Christians and the llahommedan rulers of Egypt. Another is the geographical in- formation which it gives. The value of everything is greatly enhanced by the copious annotation which accompanies the text.
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