Round about Jerusalem. By the Rev. J. E. Wright. (Jarrolds.
7s. Gd. net.)—These unpretentious letters, written in 1912 by a young clergyman who is now chaplain to the Bishop of Jerusalem, are concerned with Jerusalem and some of the other famous places in Palestine, the religious festivals, and the daily life of the people before the war. Mr. Wright described what he saw, and did not try to write a learned treatise. His chapters on Samaria and Galilee are curiously opportune, in view of General Allenby's victorious advance. From Mount Tabor, south of Nazareth, he looked down over the whole country as over a map ; the German Commander-in-Chief last week used Tabor as his observation-post. Mr. Wright noticed that Palestine was peculiarly rich in these " high places " commanding wide views, such as the hill-town of Safed or Mount Ebal or the Mount of Olives. But nothing seems to have impressed him quite so much as the deserted rock-city of Petra, beyond the Dead Sea.
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