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ClassicalMyths in Sculpture, by WALTERRaymond Agard. xiv, 203 pages,
97 ill. University of Wisconsin Press,
Madison 1951$5.00
Professor Agard has performed a
most useful function. Addressing himself to the lay reader, he has clearly and
entertainingly traced the use of Greek
and Roman mythological themes and
figuresin sculpture down to the present
day. Two openingchapters set the scene
by surveying the general influence of
classicalmythologyon sculpture and by
describing the various Greek and Roman gods and the treatment they were
given in ancient sculpture. Then follow
short chapters dealing with mediaeval
sculpture, the renaissance,the baroque
period, French classicism,the neo-classic period,the modernperiod in Europe,
the modern period in England and
America, and a final chapter, the longest in the book,devotedto recent trends.
Since the book aims to be no more
than a rapid survey, each chapter has

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been given a full critical bibliography
to aid those who may want to go further. The illustrations are all from photographs, many of which were gathered
by the author and have never been
published before. All are of high quality and some are spectacularly good.
The book itself is a thing of beauty. The
paper is of excellentquality, the text is
printed in large, clear type and surrounded by spacious margins, and the
simple yet handsome cover design well
suits the contents - L. C.
Han Tomb Art of West China. A Collection of First- and Second-Century
Reliefs. Richard C. Rudolph and Wen
Yu. vi, 67 pages, 100 plates. University
of CaliforniaPress,Berkeley1951$8.50
The vitality and variety of Chinese
art stands forth on every one of the 100
handsomeplates that form the heart of
this volume. They provide a series of
animal figures and genre scenes executed with amazing taste and charm.

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The reliefs comefrom cavesin Szechwan Province and date from the later
Han period, 25-220 A. D. Seventy-five
are on stone, the rest on bricksand tiles,
and most are very well preserved. The
authors have provided for each plate
a short but completeiconographicaldescription. A concise introduction discussesthe provenienceof the reliefs and
their place in the history of Chineseart.
- L. C
Le Tombeaude la Chrétienne,by Marcel Christofle. 188 pages, 164 ill.,
plan. Arts et Métiers Graphiques,Paris
1951
This book will long be the definitive
study of the great monumentin Algeria
known to the Arabs as "the Tomb of
the Roman Girl" and to the French as
"the Tomb of the Christian Girl". Presumablyit is the same monumentwhich
PomponiusMela (I, 6, 38) called monumentimi commune regiae gentis. It is
now thought to be the tomb of Juba il

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