1 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 20

The Arts in Greece. By F. A. Wright. (Longmans. 6.s.)

Mr. Wright is so ardent a Philhellene that in attributing everything we value in art and life to the Perielean Age he ignores the revolutionizing influence of Christianity. Most interesting on Greek dances, he becomes difficult to follow on music because he dwells not on the hymns to Apollo and other musical fragments we possess, but prefers to treat Greek verse as melody and to compare the metrical perfections of Aeschylus with the sonatas of Beethoven. Surely this is a confusion both of expression and thought!