Modern Science in Bible Lands. By Sir J. W. Dawson.
(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This exceedingly interasting volume is the result of Sir W. Dawson's tour in Egypt, Italy, and Syria. It would be difficult to pick out any chapter for special praise, though perhaps "The Topography of the Exodus," "The Haunts and Habits of Primitive Man," and "Early Man in Genesis," will interest more readers than the others. The more geological chapters are, however, invaluable to those who possess any interest in geological knowledge. Sir W. Dawson's manner of telling his facts and making clear his reasoning is charming; he has quite a masters' art of imparting scientific knowledge to others. His clear and easy style has a flow and a frequently vivid effect which teaches the reader and never wearies him. The volume is well illustrated with zna;:s and illustrations, and it forms as a whole a guide to geological questions and the knowledge of primitive man which no student of Bible lands or modern science should be without.
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