12 MARCH 1927, Page 35

Messrs. Benn send us a beautiful book—Decorative Sculpture (t2 2s.).

The pictures are selected by Herr Georg Kowalezyk, and there is an introduction by Herr August Koster of the State Museum, Berlin. Two rams on a vanity box of 4,000 B.C., reliefs from Nineveh, fabulous creatures of the Etruscans, dancers and chariots of Greek votive friezes, horse-heads from the pediment of the Parthenon, St. George couching a pretty lance on the facade of Bale Minster, Andrea Pisano's Virgins On the Campanile at Florence; ivories from Baghdad, and the graceful springing of Spanish arches are pictured here and much else besides. This book will beguile an hour of anyone's time, but the connoisseur will want to keep it.