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(Continued from page 455.) As a picture-book of infinite charm let us commend the second Volume of Plates issued as a companion to the Cambridge Ancient History (Cambridge University Press, 9s.). Here Mr. C. T. Seltman and his collaborators have assembled photographs of select examples of Greek art at its best, in the fifth and fourth centuries before Christ. The difficulty of limiting the number to about two hundred must have been great, when the field of choice was so wide. But anyone turning over the pages will see at a glance how rapidly Greek artists shook off the archaic fetters and how masterly they became—whether in architecture, sculpture, vase-painting or coins—in the age of Pericles. Facing each photograph is a descriptive note by an expert hand.
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