6 SEPTEMBER 1924, Page 22

No child could object to this guide, which is sufficiently

friendly to be trusted and provides enough background to prevent the headache often contracted during aimless wandering. The book is more or less a menu. with eight well- chosen illustrations as hors d'oeuvre. The chapter Oa Ancient Egypt is admirably informative, and The Religions of the East are described with far less condescension than usual. A short account of the founding of the Museum reminds us of less happy times when partres of not more than fifteen persons were allowed two hours in which to make what .they could of the collections.