26 JULY 1930, Page 29

Professor Baldwin Brown, steadily pursuing his labours on The Arts

in Early England gives in the new volume—Part I. of Volume VI. (Murray, 15s.)—elaborate descriptions of certain works associated with Anglian Northumbria in the eighth and succeeding centuries. There arc the copy of St. John's Gospel and the portable altar found in St. Cuthbert's coffin, the Franks casket of whalebone at the British Museum, the puzzling inscribed cross at Hackneys and the very line Tassilo cup preserved in an Austrian monastery. The author's lucid text and his many excellent photographs are much to be commended. His last volume and this one have certainly made Anglian art—rugged and original as it was—more intelligible by grouping all that remains of it.