| + + — | Ind. 58: 436. F. 23, ‘05. 900w. |
[*] Walters, Henry Beauchamp. [History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman]; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. [*]$15. Scribner.
“The first adequate treatment the history of ancient pottery received was in the two volumes of Dr. Samuel Birch, published in 1857.... Since Birch’s death, in 1885, so much new material has been gathered that a further revision of his work has been demanded.... The results of this revision and extension of Dr. Birch’s work are two sumptuous volumes of considerably more than five hundred pages each, well provided with indexes, and bibliographies.” (Dial). “We have ... in the two volumes seventeen chapters devoted to Greek vases and their decoration, and one chapter devoted to ‘Etruscan and South Italian pottery’; five chapters on Roman pottery, by which is meant the pottery of Italy under the Roman rule; and, finally, brief mention of earthenware found in Britain, Gaul, and Germany, but evidently of the Roman Imperial epoch.... There are sixty-nine plates and many are in color.... There are, moreover, two hundred and fifty text illustrations.”—Nation.
[*] “Mr. Walters has provided us with an instalment which is likely for many years to prove a most valuable work of reference for those branches of the subject which he includes in his survey. Almost every page attests the care and thoroughness with which published authorities have been consulted.”
| + + | Ath. 1905. 2: 475. O. 7. 890w. |
Reviewed by Arthur Howard Noll.
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 301. N. 16, ‘05. 1280w. |
[*] “The new publication is practically a complete summary of everything now known of classic ceramic art, no source of information, English or foreign, having been neglected.”
| + + + | Int. Studio. 27: 88. N. ‘05. 470w. | |
| * | + + | Nation. 81: 283. O. 5. ‘05. 1530w. |
[*] “Other and more expensive volumes have surpassed it in beauty of illustrations; none in its exhaustive and logical treatment of ancient pottery and the true and complete meaning of the fragments which have come down to us.”