THE CALL OF THE SIREN By Alexander Polovtsoff
Naples is the least known of all the great Italian cities. Its importance in the history of Italian art has not been generally recognised and many of its treasures have never been written about, notably some rare specimens pf Gothic architecture. Some of them are hidden away in dark back- streets, and the task of preserving them and making them known has so far been neglected. Perhaps Mr. Polovtsoff's book (Selwyn and. Blount, Jos. 6d.) will awaken interest in them. It deserves to, for he has gone deeply into the actual and historical by-ways of the city, and here presents a fasci- nating survey of his finds. In his introduction Mr.' Sacheverell Sitwell writes that " in architecture and painting he has men- tioned everything that is of importance," and certainly no other book deals with Neapolitan art so fully. But though art is its main subject, the author also deals in some detail with the general history of Naples, from mythological times to the fall of the Bourbon kings.
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