24 SEPTEMBER 1927, Page 28

GREECE OLD AND NEW. By Ashley Brown. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.)—Mr.

Ashley Brown is travel-agent and guide in this well-illustrated volume. He tells us exactly how to get to out-of-the-way places, and, when he has got us there, has a good deal of information about the ancient and modern history of the spot, which he gives in a readable but rather hurried manner. But he does not always hold the balance true between archaeological and artistic interests on the one hand and the material needs of the tourist on the other, for though he commends the hotel at Olympia as being satisfactory, he altogether omits to mention that there is a statue of Hermes by the sculptor Praxiteles in the museum, which anyone almost who took the trouble to go to Olympia might subsequently be sorry to have missed.