A 'Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life.
(British Museum. Is. 6d.)—The " Exhibition " itself is a new departure. As Mr. Cecil Smith explains in his preface to this volume, "an attempt has been made to bring together a number of miscellaneous antiquities which have been scattered through the Department." These are arranged in the order of what we may call practical life. There are twenty-three divisions, among which the "Drama," " Athletics." " Dress and Toilet," " Medicine," " Painting," and "Education " may be mentioned. The antiquities, it will be understood, are not arranged according to period or place, but according to the province of affairs to which they belong. We may compare the whole to a subject index of books. The topics have been dealt with by experts, Mr. Walters writing on " Athletics," "Circus." " Gladiators," and " Agriculture" ; Mr. Forsdyke on " Coins," "Arms, &c.," "Dress, &c." ; and the remaining sections are mainly the work of Mr. Marshall. The name of Mr. Yeames, "who prepared a great deal of the preliminary work," must not be forgotten.
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