31 DECEMBER 1921, Page 27

The Trustees of the British Museum have issued a second

edition of the cheap and excellent Guide to the Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities (2s. 6d. net) in the department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. This " guide," which first appeared in 1903, and which has been entirely rewritten by the author, Mr. 0. M. Dalton, is, in fact, a short history of Christian art up to the fall of Constantinople. It is written with full knowledge and, though concise, is perfectly clear. Mr. Dalton includes in his survey such very recent discoveries as that of the hoard of silver vessels found on Traprain Law in 1919. The little book has a hundred and twenty good photographic illustrations and a sketch map. It is a first-rate introduction to a great subject.