MUCH FINE GOLD

The Fogg Museum, which has brought on some unusually fine exhibitions during the winter, has opened a small but exceptional exhibit of Chaldean objects of art. One is astounded to learn that such exquisite workmanship should be the relic of a civilization stretching into the dimness of pre-Biblical days along the Tigris and Euphrates. These articles, which archaeologists have unearthed in a state of excellent preservation, give a vivid portrayal of the former life in Ur of the Chaldees.

The significance of such an exhibition is no matter of more passing interest. Not only will it draw the attention of those with an aesthetic appreciation for beautiful forms, but also it should have a limitless value to those who are interested in history and the progress of the human race. Rather than being written in the pages of lengthy volumes, a tale of history is here told in finely worked precious metal and gems explaining more tersely and no less clearly how the people in the dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need to be a Keats before a Grecian Urn to learn from these foster-children "of silence and slow time" the lessons which are still fresh from antiquity. The Greek civilization seems old, but the Chaldean revelations of the archaeologists are as old again. Yet, notwithstanding the lapse of time, art was even then one of the most enduring and permanent recorders of history.