We have also received Antiquities of Sind, by Mr. Henry
Cousens, the late Superintendent of the Western Circle of the Archaeological Survey of India (obtainable from the same address, £3 8s. 9d.). The researches here discussed were carried out before Mr. Cousens retired in 1910. Since then important discoveries have been made in Sind, -notably at Mohenjo-dharo, and a complete report of these is eagerly awaited.' There is much of beauty and importance in' the present volume, however, and we would associate ourselves with Mr. Cousens' plea for a special excavation officer and staff for Sind, and for a vigorous prosecution- of excavation before the villagers have dug out the bricks and formdatiOns of sites which are precious alike to the historian and to the art lover. The half-tone blocks in the text leave much to be desired, owing no doubt to the lack of pence which troubles public men and Government departments, but the illuitra- tions on heavy art paper which comprise the latter half of the book are excellent, and a worthy memorial of long years of arduous research, Sind is not a pleasant country in which to work or travel during the hot season : the Archaeo- logical Survey of India and Mr. Cousens are to be congratu- lated on their labours there, which have given to the world
so much new light on vanished civilizations." "
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