The Annual of the British School at Athens, 1900 - 1901. (Macmillan
and Co. 10s. (Id. net.)—About three-fourths of this volume are occupied with an account by Mr. Arthur J. Evans of the excava- tions of the Mycenaean Palace of Cnossos, a carrying on of operations begun last year. It is quite impossible to give even a brief résumé of this paper. Perhaps the most noteworthy find was a cartouche of the Hyksas King Khyan (Khyitn, though little is known about him, seems to have been a conqueror; he had a Ka name that signified "embracing territories "). Among the other objects found was a gaming-table, very artistically executed, and not unlike a "fox-and-geese" board ; there were also pictures of women bull-fighters (French amateurs of this sport might take the hint, and even surpass their Spanish teachers), and a very curiously modern-looking fresco of a girl, a little archaic in its rigid outlines, but with her hair fashionably dressed. She is eminently /3oreels. Standard weights and an olive press are articles significant of civilisation. Mr. Hogarth contributes a paper on excavations at Zagro, also in Crete, supplemented by a paper on the characteristics of skulls from cave- burials at that place (by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins). Finally,
there is a paper by Herr Adolf Wilhelm on a discovery which has identified two Athenian inscriptions as really parts of one decree. A certain Asandros had various distinctions conferred upon him, maintenance in the Prytaneum, a seat of honour at Games, the right to set up a brass statue in the Agora,—only not beside that of Harmodius and Aristogeiton.
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