Egyptian Art

Abstract

“AT two o'clock in the afternoon of February 12, 1906, while Naville was finishing his lunch, a workman came running up to tell him that the top of a vault was beginning to emerge from the earth.” This is the opening sentence of the eleventh section or chapter in Sir Gaston Maspero's latest work, and it may serve as an indication of the book's quality. We here have no carefully reasoned presentation of the various aspects and problems presented by Egyptian Art. Such a work, by the same author, we already possess in “Art in Egypt,” which has appeared within the year in the Ars una: species mille Series. “Egyptian Art” falls into quite a different category, and will prove an admirable foil or supplement to the more formal treatise. Egyptian Art. Studies by Sir Gaston Maspero. Translated by Elizabeth Lee. Pp. 223 + plates. (London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.) Price 21s. net.