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Archaeological Survey of India : Annual Report, 1915-16. Edited by

Sir John Marshall. (Calcutta : Superintendent of Government Printing. 27s.)—This new volume, delayed by the war, exemplifies in the variety of its contents the vastness of the field open before the Indian Archaeological Survey. Sir John Marshall describes further excavations at Te.xila, M. Duroiselle discusses the decadent Buddhism of Burma, and several Indian scholars contribute Reports on ancient monuments in Kashmir and elsewhere. The Delhi Museum, we learn, possesses three fine old swords which once belonged respectively to Shah Abbas, the Persian contemporary of Queen Elizabeth, and to the Emperors Shahjahan and Aurangzeb. The volume is, as usual, superbly illustrated.