The Site Of Solomon's Temple Discovered.

relation tv distance , area , ancl boundary . We Avill cite the Biblical evidence- upon which his measurements of the Tem ple Area are based . ( To be continued . )

Review.

Review .

Guide and Lita : a Tale of the . Riviera . By the Marquis of Lome . ( Macmillan . ) We have perused this neAV poem ' with much pleasure . As . most of pur readers may knoAV from the name , the scene is laid iu that " morgeri land" arid especially to a

, portion of . it which , commends itself to those Avho Avish to avoid the rigours' of our northern winter . Hear , first of all , the ' description of that favoured clime : —

" Here every slope , and intervening dale , Yields a SAveet fragrance to the passing gale , From the thick Avoods , Avere dark caroubas .- t . Avine Their massive verdure , with' the hardiei

pme , .-... . - And , ' mid the rocks ; or hid in 'hollowed cave , . - The fern and iris in profusion Avave ; , ! From countless terraces , Avhere olives rise , Hnehilled by autumn ' s hlast , or Avultry Skies , ¦ ...:: . ; .,. - ., .-. . within the dusk

And round the' steins , y shade , The red anemones their home have made ; From gardens , Avhere its breath" " for ever blows ... - . .,- .. Through myrtle , thickets , and . their Avreaths of rose . "

Here it was that in those ' days Saracenic pirates ' used ; to make a fell SAvpop , like fierce , birds , of prey- as they were , carrying Christian men to slavery , and Christian maids to infamy to which" death had been preferable . ' A mountain pas ' s of" these Southern Alps is still termed "Monte Moro . " ,.- ' .

" Rude captains on the frontier held their ; OAvn , Their lavvless deeds scarce to each othei known ;

But those of Sirad had been noted well , As oft performed with all the art of Hell , To spread the rule of Islam far and wide . A grisly bigot he , Avho had denied ., Himself no vices that his creed alloAved , At inOrn and eve his knee to Mecca boAved

, With prayer to Allah , that his servant ' s SAVorcl . - . Might purge the land for Mahomet and ' the Lord . "

Guido , son of the Knight of Qrles , has fallen in love Avith lata ,. as , young men sometimes do , the daughter of a fisherman , ancl she is described , in all the promise of love ' s young dream , and her beauty is' said to be , poetically of course , loveliness

" - '—not such as in the North "Blushes' like sunshine through ' ' the niorn-/ irig mist— , ' . '' ... Was that of soAifchern' eve ; ' quick-darkening , kissed By crimson' lightnings' of hei ' "burning day . "

r lil Sirad , the corsair , " makes ' a "descent upon the coast , and sweeps" off many captives , among whom is Lita , "'fairest of the fair . "' Her deliverer makes love to her , of course ; but—like a prudent young Avoman who . has a young " fellar" of her own to

boot ,. in a dreadful state at home — she repels his advances' with ' . resolution , and disdain , and . no ' doubt . ' givesrthe corsair a bit of her , rabid , as regards improper behaviour to her , & c . i & c , .. .. . , " ¦ She escapes by tlie ; interyentioii' of a jealous woman , who had , . np'dbubtj' claims of some , kind more or less'interesting on "El Shad " : —

"And left alone she' gazed ' above , Avhere ' frowned - . ¦ - The black rocks darkly o ' er the sombre , pines , , , ... Arid ' over them the riiooh hi rugged lines Of peak and glacier shone ' with '" starlight

cold , .,. . . . And all Avas quiet ' , ' save the stream that '" ' ' told '' ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ Of restless haste , till home' at' last Avere ' found . " ' ;

_ > Ve are not ¦ told clearly how she gets back to Orles , Avhere ' she "is found by some peasants , but she does get home , and she