The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-13
THE WORCESTER SPY. SUNDAY NOVEMBER l5

mense literature which has grown up
around. the Holy City. OF the numer-
Gus books upon this subject, those IN
any degree authoritative are commonly
too exhaustive for general reading
while the cheaper works are usually
the Impressions of tourists or transient
visitors. Mr.. Wallace has combined
completeness with brevity, and while
seeking to make a volume that should
delight and instruct the general reader
and those who are intending to visit
Jerusalem, has succeeded equally in
producing a handbook of the history
and antiquities of the city which will
be of the greatest service to those who
approach the subject from a more
scolarly point of view.
After describing the city of the Ca
NANTES, of David and Solomon, ano
as Christ saw it, the author passes tC
the city as it is today. the walls and
gates, and the hills ana valleys round
about it. OF especial interest is his &C
count of the church of the Holy Sepul-
chre and of the newer Gordons Cal
vary Mr.. Wallace is of the opinion
that it is no wonder the followers OF
Moses and Mohammed will never leave
their faiths to embrace Christianity
when all that they know is the type OF
Christianity represented by this
church and it's history, and he adds
that true religion would lose nothing
if this church and it's record could be
expunged from the pages of history
He regards as absolutely groundless
the tradition that has for Is centuries
connected the church of the Holy Sep
ulchre with the crucifxion and the bur-
rial of our Lord, and he offers as q
much more likely site Of the great trag-
edy the only prominent hillock north OF
the city, which is known among the
Jews as the "Place of Stoning," ano
meets all the geographical conditions
of Galgotha. When General Gordon OF
Chinese fame, a year or two before his
last campaign, visited Jerusalem, he
was so impressed with the belief that
the new Calvary was the actual one
that he wrote and spoke much in its
favor. An enterprising photographer
named his view of the hill Gordon's call
vary and it is today probably better
known by this than by any other title
says Mr.. Wallace.
In his chapter on Excavations in
Jerusalem, the author gathers UP
into small compass the results of recent
exploration parties; other chapters are
devoted to the Jew, the Christian and
the Moslem in Jerusalem, to climate
and health, passion week and Easter
In the concluding chapter he writes OF
the future OF Jerusalem, pTeulCllilS thai
the time is not far distant when Pales-
tine will be in the hands of the Jews.
Not only does prophecy foretell it, but
political and social events presage it.
"a Corner of Spain" By Miriam
Coles Harris Houghton, Miftlin q
Co.
Spain is very individual in its rough
ness and it's grandeur, it's richness of
vegetation and it's poverty of imple-
nent; it is at once a brigand and a
baby, a fanatic and bull fighter; it is
devout and dissolute, contemplate and
magnificent, but it is always and in
alienably SPAIN .....
Mrs. Harris little book Of Impressions
and experiences in Gibraltar, Malaga
and Seville. is one of the pleasantest
bits of .iterary sauntering that one can
imagine. 1t is thoughtful without heaV-
mess, bright without fiippancy, person
al without triviality A charming Eng
fish style is made the handmald oil a
mind keen at observation AMI d tom
permanent quick to respond to every
fresh and piquant impression. All
though written without direct refer
ence to the recent war with Spain, "A
Corner of Spain" illumines many points
of Spanish character that cannot be
without interest for the American. NO
more delightful book of its kind S like
Nv to fall into the readers hands.