The Jerusalem Garden Tomb. Edited by A. W. Crawley-Boevey, M.A.
(Marshall Brothers. is. not.)—This is an appeal for the maintenance of a property well known to all interested in the Holy Sites question. General Gordon thought that he had found the true sepulchre in a spot called tho Gordon Tomb. There is no need to enter into the controversy that followed, and has gone on intermittently ever since. Canon Tristram was on Gordon's side ; Major Condor was on the other, In July 1898 a sum of 92,300 was raised for the purchase of the tomb and the surrounding enclosure ; it is now proposed to raise about £3,000 for the upkeep of the place in various ways. It is, anyhow, a curious monument of antiquity—an old Jewish tomb which has been converted into a Christian place of sepulture—and it would be a pity that the money already spent should be wasted.
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