Greek Sculpture, with Story and Song. By Albinia Wherry. (J.
M. Dent and Co.)—This is a very pleasant, readable book, not too technical for the ordinary reader, but not wanting in solidity. Mrs. Wherry has wisely limited her list of statues and works of art described to those that are to be found in the British Museum, or of which casts are accessible to the English reader. The great buildings of classical antiquity are described; legends are given where they illustrate the subject, and there is a selection of passages from Homer, the dramatists, and the anthology (translated) and from great English poets. A few verbal corrections may be singgested. Homer does not " describe" the image of Athene in the citadel, but mentions it (the quota- tion from M. Arnold is scarcely appropriate, for the legend of the Palladium is post-Homeric ; the Iliad knows nothing of a temple or statue on which the safety of Troy depended). Some of the transliterations of Greek names might be improved. " Despoina "
would be better than " Despoena" (as we have " Leaina" on p. 48). " Canephora " is not a legitimate form. If " Pheidias" why " Cerainicus" "Demophoon," not " Dermophon," is the name of the brother of Triptolemus. The great gathering at Delos should be described as "Pan-Ionian" rather than " Pan- liellenic."
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