11 JULY 1896, Page 24

Cretin Pictographs and Prae-Phcenician Script. By Arthur T.

Evans. (Bernard Quarita.) — In this volume Mr. Evans describes interesting discoveries made in Crete in the course of the years 1894-95 A system of picture-writing and another, allied to it, of linear-writing are the chief topics treated of. Mr. Evans suggests a connection of the culture thus indicated with the Achrean civilisation of Mycenas on the one hand, and with the Philistines on the other.