A Brief Description of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. By George
Jeffery. (Cambridge University Press. 103. 6d. net.) —Mr. Jeffery's scholarly book contains not only a description of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but also a history of it with quotations from the accounts of travellers who visited the church from the fourth century onwards, and with plans, photographs, and reproductions of old prints. Mr. Jeffery describes also the lesser shrines of Jerusalem and the various European copies of the world-renowned church, especially the early and very curious group of buildings at San Stefano, Bologna. We must be content to say that the book is of great interest and value, and that it should be read by intelligent tourists before they go to Jerusalem and after they return. Mr. Jeffery reminds us of the amazing variety of religions that are represented at Jerusalem. It is a strange fact that, in the very ancient little Church of the Tomb of the Virgin, the Moslems still pray at a niche on the south side of the tomb, hard by the altars of the Roman Catholics, Armenians, Greeks, and other Christians.
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