Village Accommodation.—In the villages accommodation is very scanty, although sometimes it is possible to obtain a room, but as a rule the traveller has to take with him his own provisions, cooking appliances and cook. Village rooms are not recommended, and tents are preferable.
Posts, etc.—See Part V. for information regarding Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones.
§ 5. Books of Reference.
The volume of literature dealing with Palestine is vast. Röhricht's Bibliotheca Geographica Palaestinae (Berlin, 1890) is a catalogue raisonné of the descriptions, manuscript and printed, of the Holy Land written between the years 333 and 1878; and Dr. P. Thomsen's Die Palästina-Literatur, of which three volumes have hitherto appeared (in Leipzig), is a complete bibliography of all works relating to Palestine from 1895 onwards.
A brief classified lst of recent books likely to be most useful to residents and visitors is given below; other more specialized works are noted in those sections of the Handbook to which they have particular reference.
Guide-Books.—Fr. B. Meistermann, O.F.M., Nouveau Guide de Terre Sainte, Paris, 1907.
Macmillan's Guide to Palestine and Syria, London, 1908.
Baedeker's Palestine and Syria, Leipzig, 1912.
Professeurs de Notre Dame de France, La Palestine: Guide Historique et Pratique, Paris, 1912.
H. Pirie-Gordon, Palestine Pocket Guide-Books, 4 vols., Jerusalem, 1918–19.
General.—A. Goodrich-Freer, Inner Jerusalem, London, 1904.
Vicomte E. M. de Vogüé, Syrie, Palestine, Mont Athos, Paris, 1905.
D. S. Margoliouth and W. S. Tyrwhitt, Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, London, 1907.
G. L. Bell, The Desert and the Sown, London, 1907.
