Assyrian Sculpture: Second Edition
When Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics to "A Foggy Day," he expressed thene plus ultraof London unhappiness with the words, 'The British Museum has lost its charm.' As a new series of paperbacks from Harvard University Press...demonstrates, such an unthinkable state must needs constitute the very slough of despond. The institution's vast range of artistic treasures is suggested by the titles in the series:The Elgin Marbles,Assyrian Sculpture,Clocks and Watches,Egyptian Sculpture,Roman Britain, andEgyptian Mummies. Each has numerous illustrations, [and] literate texts by Museum staff members. (Boston Sunday Globe)