ter concerning Sinai and Palestine. The journals of travellers of all
times are laid under contribution, and you are allowed often to form
your own judgments from the primitive narratives. You are like one
sitting in a court and hearing a host of witnesses examined and
cross-examined by able counsel, and then listening to the summing up of
a learned judge. It is easy to see how much more vivid such descriptions
must be than a dry _resume_ without these accompanying _pieces
justificatifs_.

The first of the four volumes concerns the peninsula of Mount Sinai. It
gives the history of all the travels in that region, and the chief works
concerning it from the earliest time; the routes to Mount Sinai; the
voyages of Hiram and Solomon through the Red Sea to India; an
interesting discussion of the name Ophir; the different groups of
mountains in this region; the Bedouin tribes of the peninsula, and of
Arabia Petraea; and a full account of Petra, the monolithic city of Edom.

The second volume begins with a comparative view of Syria, and a review
of the authorities on the geography of Palestine. Then follows an
account of the Land of Canaan and its inhabitants before the conquest by
the Israelites, and of the tribes outside of Palestine who remained
hostile to the Israelites. We next have an account of the great
depression of the Jordan Valley, the river and its basin. Chapters on
the sources of the Jordan, the Sea of Galilee, the caravan road to
Damascus, and the river to the Dead Sea, and an account of the
travellers who have surveyed the region, follow,--with an Appendix, in
which is contained a discussion of the site of Capernaum, and Tobler's
full list of works on Palestine.

Vol. III. contains chapters on the Mouth of the Jordan; the Dead Sea;
the Division among the Ten Tribes; an account of Judaea, Samaria, and
Galilee; the routes through the Land; and several scientific essays.

Vol. IV. gives a full account of Jerusalem, ancient, mediaeval, and
modern; a discussion of the holy places; an account of the inhabitants;
the region around Jerusalem; the roads to and from the city; Samaria;
and Galilee;--concluding with an index of subjects, and another of
texts.

On the whole, we must express our gratitude to Mr. Gage for his labor of
love, in thus giving us the results of the studies of his friend and
master on this important theme. Students of the Bible and of Syrian
geography can nowhere else find the matters treated