The Pilgrimage of Etheria. By M. L. McClure and C.
L. Felice, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 6s.)—Ethetia was a Provencal, or perhaps a Spanish, religious who in the latter half of the sixth century undertook a pilgrimage to Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia. This journal of her travels was discovered in a MS. of the eleventh century at Arezzo (1887), and, though defective, is of extreme interest ; and the S.P.O.K. deserves thanks for making it accessible to English readers. The good Abbess has not a little in common with the religious tourist of our own time. She was told much ; she was "personally conducted" by the local clergy ; and she believed everything that she was told. And, as she was a good observer and wrote easily, the result is a singularly life-like account of the religious life of the Near East in the reign of Justinian—circa 565.
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