5 SEPTEMBER 1931, Page 24

Those who are interested in the scanty remains of Celtic

or Saxon sculpture should not miss Dr. Hay Fleming's new and elaborate catalogue of the St. Andrew's Cathedral Museum (Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, 25s.), with its many good photographs. The eleventh-century builders of the cathedral had no more respect for the early monuments than a modern contractor would show. They smashed the sculptured crosses and used them as material for the new church. But some of the fragments that have been dug up or taken out of the cathedral ruins are very fine indeed, and comparable to the Northumbrian crosses which have excited so much attention.