.4 History of Art in Chaldcea and Assyria. From the
French of Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez. 2 vols. Translated and edited by Walter Armstrong, B.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—These volumes are a sequel to the work on Egyptian art produced by the
same authors, and introduced, like the present, to the English public under the skilful care of Mr. Armstrong. Both text and illustrations are all that could be desired. The former, with occasional annota- tions from the editor, bring down the exposition of this province of ancient art to the latest development of our knowledge, while the plates and -minor illustrations, numbering as they do, in all, more than four hundred, supplement most admirably the literary work. They are not, perhaps, as highly finished as some that could be men- tioned, but their practical utility and completeness make them most valuable. We do not pretend, it will be seen, to review this laborious work, but we commend it to the notice of all who are in- terested in the subject, with the remark that the translator has done justice to the vigorous and picturesque style of his original.
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