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appropriate: every part of the body as well as the total impression which it produces is 

 thoroughly girlish. She is an attendant at a sacrifice, or entrusted with some religious 

 function to which with na'ive simplicity she devotes her whole attention. 



To Mr. Guy Dickins we owe an important series of papers in which he has no.t only 

 studied the remains of the colossal group at Lycosura, consisting of Demeter, Perse- 

 phone, Artemis and Anytus, but succeeded in restoring the design of the group, a restora- 

 tion more recently confirmed by the evidence- of a coin : of Arcadia which reproduces 

 the group. These figures were by Damophon of Messene, and Mr. Dickins has con- 

 clusively fixed the date of the artist, who used to be given to the fourth century, to the 

 early part of the second century B.C. Such fixed points are of the greatest value. 

 The date also of the Laocoon has been by Danish archaeologists fixed, on the testimony 

 of inscriptions, to about B.C. 50-30, just before the time of the Aeneid, thus settling 

 for all time a memorable controversy. 



The Hellenistic age has many attractions to the researcher, and presents a vast range 

 of interesting problems. From the artistic poin f of view, new lights could scarcely be 

 more illuminating than that offered by the recent appearance of statue after statue from 

 the workshop of iAphrodisias in Asia Minor, which seems to have supplied Italy, under 

 the earlier emperors, with original types of the Greek deities. This school can best be 

 studied in the magnificent Ny-Carlsberg Museum of Sculpture, presented to the city of 

 Copenhagen by Mr. Jacobsen. 



A few of the many important books on Greek art which have appeared in the last few 

 years may be mentioned. Among the most valuable are the volumes on archaic Greek art 

 which form part of the great Histoire de I'art dans I'antiquite of .Messrs. Perrot and Chipiez. 

 We have here a more detailed general account of early architecture, sculpture and vases than 

 has before appeared; and M. Perrot 's work is marked by conspicuous good sense and modera- 

 tion. Another valuable French work is Collignon's Statues funeraires dans I'art grec, a 

 book which goes over the whole history of sculpture in Greece. In English we have some 

 important new works, such as the great work on the Parthenon, already mentioned; Walters' 

 An of the Greeks; Mr. E. Gardner's Six Greek Sculptors, and the. Catalogue of the Sculpture 

 of the Museum of the Capitol, a work of great research and much value, edited by Mr. 

 Stuart Jones. In the very important and much neglected province of Greek portrait sculp- 

 ture we have Hekler's Greek and Roman Portraits, the numerous plates of which bring for 

 the first time ancient portraits within the ken of people of moderate means. The notable 

 work of Furtwangler and Reichhold on Greek Vases makes it possible to study these admirable 

 works of art outside the galleries of museums. (p. GARDNER.) 



PROTECTION OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS 1 



United Kingdom. The question of the protection of monuments has come promi- 

 nently before the general public in England during 1910-1912. This is due partly to 

 the action of antiquarian societies and the great publicity given by the press when any 

 monument is reported to be for sale or demolition, partly to the activity shown by the 

 Office of Works and Mr. C. R. Peers, the official Inspector of Ancient Monuments, in 

 making known the provisions of existing legislation, and partly to the interest roused 

 by the publications of the Royal Commissions in England, Scotland and Wales. 



Inventories with full descriptions and illustrations have been published by these 

 Commissions of the Monuments of Hertfordshire and South Buckinghamshire in Eng- 

 land; Berwickshire, Caithness, Sutherlandshire and Wigtownshire in Scotland; and 

 Montgomeryshire and Flintshire in Wales; and the number and interest of the monu- 

 ments there described have been a surprise to all but the most experienced archaeologists. 

 On the whole, the enquiries show that, with few exceptions, architectural monuments of 

 known interest receive careful treatment and that a far greater number suffer from 

 ignorant restoration than from neglect. 



From the English Inventories, evidence was adduced in 1912 before a Joint Com- 

 mittee of both Houses of Parliament, showing that 95% of the ecclesiastical monuments 

 in Hertfordshire and South Buckinghamshire were in " good " or "fair" structural 

 condition, while 5% were in bad condition or in ruins; of the secular monuments (in- 

 cluding barns and cottages) 88% were in good condition while 12% were in bad condi- 



1 See E. B. xviii, 796 el seq. 



