We publish on Plate V. two photographic views, in the same size as the original, of a beautiful lekythos recently presented to the British Museum by Mr. Malcolm Macmillan. We give on the same plate enlarged reproductions of the designs with which it is adorned, from drawings by Mr. F. Anderson.

We hope to print in our next issue a full description and discussion of the vase by Mr. Cecil Smith. Meantime it may be sufficient to give a brief summary of a notice of it which he has already published in the number of the Classical Review of May last (p. 237). He classes it with the ‘protokorinthian’ lekythi published by Furtwängler in the Archäologische Zeitung for 1883, Pl. 10, p. 154. The following are the main features, following the order in which they appear in our Plate. The head and neck are carefully modelled in the form of a lion's head. The handle is adorned with a plaited pattern and Gorgon-head; the shoulder with a palmette pattern. On the body of the vase are three friezes which represent (1) warriors fighting, several of them kneeling and being speared from behind; (2) a horse-race, an ape and a swan beneath the horses; (3) a hunting scene, the hunter crouching behind his net. ‘Below this scene is a band of alternate purple and black rays, and then two brown lines surrounding the foot. On the under surface of the foot is a tiny rosette of eight petals, alternating purple and black.’