How to Catalogue a Library. By Henry B. Wheatley. (Elliot
Stock.)—Mr. Wheatley is an expert, and writes out of a fullness of knowledge in which he has few equals. It seems a simple matter to make a catalogue : the difficulties that crop up when the task is actually attempted are found to be numerous. If an author changes his name, for instance, during his literary career, under what heading should his works be entered ? The British Museum says "the first," and accordingly, as Mr. Wheatley re- marks, refers the reader of Sir Francis Palgrave to "Cohen," a name which no one connects with him. Few of us have libraries which it is worth while to catalogue—indeed, it is becoming a question whether it is worth while to have a library at all—but this book will be found interesting to nearly all readers.
We can recommend without reserve the Manual of Ancient Sculpture, by Pierre Paris, edited and augmented by Jane E Harrison. (H. Grovel and Co.)—A book of standard merit, it has received additions of great value from the accomplished axchteologist through whose hands it has passed in the process of adaptation to the needs of English readers. It embraces a wide field, nothing less than the sculpture of Egypt, the Asiatic East, Greece, and Italy, and takes in the long period from the earliest art of the kingdoms of the Nile to the Grieco Roman school of the second century of our era. The illustrations are copious and excellent.
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