A Handbook of Greek Sculpture. By Ernest Arthur Gardner. (Macmillan
and Co.)—This is one of the series of "Handbooks of Archaeology and Antiquities." It gives us in a very moderate compass an adequate account of its subject, so far as the author has carried it on. We have, that is to say, the introduction, in which are described the sources of our knowledge, literary and monumental, and the materials and processes of the art, as the Greeks practised it; chap. 1 describes "Early Influences," with an account of Egyptian, Assyrian, and Phoenician art, and of what may be generally described as prehistoric Greek art ; chap. 2, " The Rise of Greek Sculpture ; " and chap. 3, " The Fifth Century." In a second volume Mr. Gardner begins with the sculpture of the Parthenon, and goes on to discuss other Athenian sculptures, the Theseum, Erectheum, &c., following this up again with notices of the second generation of Athenian artists, who learnt their art from Phidias, Calamis, and Myron, and of Polyclitus and others. Other chapters are given to the " Fourth Century," with notices of Praxiteles, the Mausoleum, &o., the "Hellenistic Age," and " Gra3co-Roman and Roman Sculpture."
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