2 SEPTEMBER 1905, Page 21

Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund. (38 Conduit Street.

2s. 6d.)—This is a more than usually interesting number. In the line of exploration, the results achieved at Gezer are remarkable. One of these discoveries is the subject of a special paper. It is a deed relating to the sale of a field. Its date is fixed by the name of the Viceroy of Carchemish. "It is interesting to have the domination of Assyria at Gezer so clearly made out at this period." The excel- lent papers on the "Bedouin of the Sinaitic Peninsula," by Mr. W. E. Jennings-Bramley, are continued ; while Dr. George Adam Smith contributes a paper on " Callirrhoe and Machaerus."