• - SOME REFERENCE BOOKS
The Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India 1924. Edited by Sir John Marshall.—The important dis- coveries at Harappa in the Punjab and Mohenjo Daro are dealt with here in a preliminary way, -with a warning from the Director-General not to expect a considered statement until the close of the season 1925-1926. Sir John Marshall's recent articles to the Times bring his judgments, which are of absorbing interest to the students of early civilizations, more up to date. We know now, as the result of these discoveries, that civilization existed in the Indus valley in the third millennium before Christ,- and that it was part and parcel of a sphere of culture which may have extended as far as the Mediterranean littoral. Lack of funds, as usual, has prevented the adequate conservation and excava- tion of Indian antiquities. Nevertheless a .striking amount of work has been done on very little money, and Sir John Marshall and those_ working with him are to be congratulated on their memorable contributions to archaeology in Asia and beyond.
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