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Greek and Roman Portraits. By Dr. Anton Hekler. (W. Heinemann.

31s. 6d.)—Unqualified pleasure is to be derived from this volume, which contains perfectly reproduced photographs of over three hundred Greek and Roman sculptures. We confess to being quite unmoved by Dr. Hekler's plea in favour of the Greek artiste. To our mind the terrific force and intense realism of the Roman por- traits entirely eclipses the unsatisfying and generalized beauty of their Greek rivals. But the book is one to be looked at rather than discussed.