Apollo. By S. Reinath. Translated from the French by Florence
Simmonds. (W. Heinemann. 6s.)—This is a new edition, revised, with some new illustrations, of a work published two years ago under the title of "The Story of Art throughout the Ages." It is a really uncommon achievement, the story of art from its rude beginnings in the efforts of prehistoric man down to the latest achievements of present-day Academies and Salons. An English reader may not improbably think that British art and artistic literature have not received quite their due—some- thing has been done to set this right by the insertion of bracketed passages—but every one will acknowledge the general merit of the book and of its copious illustrations. We must express our dissent from the dictum that the "poems attributed to Homer received their present form about 800 B.C." These poems seem to describe a contemporary civilisation, which is probably to be attributed to the end of the Mycenaean age.
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