There was certainly room for a well illustrated work, providing at once a conspectus and a review of early Maltese archaeology. Only an unusual library can supply simultaneously to the reader the Papers of the British School at Rome, three or four volumes of Archaeologia, the official reports on the excavations, Ebert’s Reallexikon, and Zammit’s Prehistoric Malta, to mention only the indispensable minimum. Even with all these the student has not enough pictorial material to enable him to visualize the whole subject.