P. 219.--We have here omitted to draw attention to one of the differences between the art of the Sargonids and that of the preceding dynasty. In the figures from Tello and in the bas-reliefs of the time of Assurnazirpal the sculptor has left the eyeballs smooth (Plate VII.; Vol. I. Fig. 15; Vol. II, Figs. 43, 64, 113). In the sculptures of the time of Sargon and his successors, on the other hand, the cornea is indicated in the figures both of men and animals, by a clearly traced circle (Vol. I, Figs. 22 and 25; Vol. II. Fig. 118 and Plate X.). It was, no doubt, the desire to give a more lifelike expression to the physiognomy that led the artist thus to modify his proceeding. There are a few figures in which the desire for imitative truth is pushed even farther. In a bas-relief in the Louvre there is an eagle-headed deity in which not only the cornea but the pupil also is marked by a smaller circle within the first. See the _De l’Expression des Yeux dans la Statuaire_ of Doctor DEBROU (_Correspondant_, April 10th, 1883). His special knowledge has enabled him to make more than one remark upon the representation of the eye in ancient and modern sculpture, to which writers upon art would do well to pay attention. P. 398.--On the subject of the female divinity whose worship was so widely spread over the whole East and over the Mediterranean coasts, the dissertation of Herr GELZER, _Zum Cultus der Assyrischen Aphrodite_ (Lepsius’s _Zeitschrift_, 1875, p. 127) may be consulted with profit. * * * * * We received the admirable _Guide to the Kuyundjik Gallery_, published by the authorities of the British Museum, too late to make use of it for our work. It joins to an exhaustive account of the bas-reliefs of Sennacherib and Assurbanipal a description of the smaller objects contained in the glass cases of the same gallery. Many of these objects date from a very early period, and many were found in Chaldæa. Some of the more interesting texts are translated by Mr. Pinches; of others he gives a summary. The body of the work is preceded by an introduction giving such details of Assyrian history, religion and manners as are required by the general student. When a similar _brochure_ is forthcoming for the Nimroud gallery--and the energy of the English officials is a guarantee that we shall not have to wait long for it--visitors to the museum will be in possession of all that is necessary to enable them to profit to the fullest extent by its superb collection. [Illustration] INDEX. A Abd-al-Medjid, Sultan, ii. 39. Abdul-Hamid, ii. 76. Abou-Abba (or Sippara), i. 200. Abou-Sharein, i. 157, 190, 262; ii. 34. Abraham, i. 15, 199. Abydenus, i. 51; spoken of by Eusebius, 57. Abydos, on the Hellespont, ii. 220. Accad, i. 14, 21, 59. Acheron, i. 354. Adar (Saturn?), i. 73. Adrammelech, i. 103.