Abstract

Art

The article presents information from the world of arts. The book "Public Baths and Wash-Houses," by Alfred W.S. Cross, is a treatise on their planning, design, arrangement, and fitting. The most comprehensive treatise on bath houses hitherto published is writer Felix Genzmer's "Bade und Schwimm-Anstalten." The thin little book-in the Modern Cicerone Series on the Royal Picture Gallery at Dresden, by professor Hans W. Singer, is of convenient pocket size, is profusely illustrated, and the choice of a hundred and odd paintings, for comment, out of the nearly three thousand in the gallery, is intelligent, while the author's remarks are sensible. A provisional account has appeared of the recent excavations at Tiryns carried on by the German Archeological Institute under the direction of Dr. W. Dorpfeld.