CURRENT LITERATURE.
Gleanings from a Tour in Palestine and the East. By Charles D. Bell, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The friend who advised Dr. Bell to publish these recollections of his travels was right. The interest in the subject is perennially fresh ; and a cultivated, intelli- gent traveller who gives us his impressions without affectation or ambitious effort is sure to find readers. We can hardly say that there is anything absolutely new in Dr. Bell's narrative. Still, he has points of difference from his predecessors. We observe, for instance, the evident appreciation with which he notes the beauty of the Paleatineflora. There is visible, too, throughout, a manifest feeling of enjoyment in the travels which attracts the reader, and, in a way, makes itself felt by him. Interspersed are some poems which, with- out possessing any great inspiration, show devout feeling and a hearty appreciation of that which they seek to describe.
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