OF considerable interest is a short article entitled "Museum Reorganization in France", which appears in the Museums Journal of September (pp. 95–96). It reports the adoption of a scheme for the extensive reorganization of the art, history, and archæological museums of that country. The scheme will operate under the new Directorate of Arts and Letters which (by order of the French Minister of Education) has now replaced the former Directorate of Fine Arts. The development of the new Directorate (under M. Jacques Jaujard) will include the national museum service (hitherto known as "Musées nation-aux"). In future, this service is to be known as "Musées de France", and it will be responsible for not only the six departments of the Louvre, the Palais de Tokio, the Jeu de Paume, the Guimet and Rodin Museums, and the museums of Cluny, Versailles, Saint-Germain, Compiègne, Sèvres, Malmaison, Fontainebleau, Pau, etc., as in the past (under its former designation), but also for all the provincial art museums. The object of this is the improvement of provincial museum collections, and the extension to those institutions of modern museum methods. A General Inspectorate of Museums, under the control of the Director of French Museums, will ensure maintenance of efficiency in these respects. In addition, the provincial museums are to be divided into two categories: (1) designated museums, and (2) controlled museums. The former will comprise the more important institutions (the curators of which will be Government officials), and the latter the smaller museums, the officials of which will remain municipal employees. In the first case the payment of salaries will be shared between the State and the municipalities concerned; in the second case, presumably, there will be no State grant in respect of salaries, but the Government will reserve the right of selecting candidates, and these, as a rule, will be required to hold the higher diploma of the École du Louvre.