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 596 REVIEWS OF BOOKS October embassy was necessarily futile, as King Charles could neither offer any inducement nor apply any constraint, and his command-in-chief lasted only for one brief and bloodless campaign. Miss Hervey was anxious to clear Arundel from the imputations of Clarendon, who represents him as at once greedy and profuse, arrogant and incapable. She thought that Clarendon had been biased against Arundel by his uncle, Chief Justice Hyde, who owed his promotion to Buckingham, Arundel's enemy. The many letters printed in this volume give a more favourable notion of Arundel. He seems to have been excellent in family life, an affectionate husband and father. The charge of arrogance would appear to have had some foundation, although" the letters suggest that, apart from this infirmity, Arundel was a kindly man. Some of the facts recorded by Miss Hervey would lead us to think that he was fond of money. But she certainly shows that his profusion was of a noble kind. His enthusiasm as a collector, his sound judgement and his wide sympathies in art, are richly illustrated in this volume. He was an ardent admirer of Holbein, he introduced Honthorst to the knowledge of Englishmen, he was an early patron of Van Dyck, and Rubens termed him ' one of the four evangelists of art '. His activity as a collector was felt from Madrid to Dantzig. For the ' cabinet ' or collection of Daniel Nys he gave £10,000, then a prodigious sum. The Arundel Inventory of works of art, dated 1655 and printed here as Appendix V, although far from complete, is most 'remarkable for extent and variety. Arundel had competitors such as King Charles and the duke of Buckingham, but if Rubens could write so warmly about ' the incredible quantity of excellent pictures and of antique statues and inscriptions which are found in this [the English] Court ' (p. 283), the chief praise must be given to Arundel. Perhaps the most famous part of Arundel's activity as a collector is what relates to classical antiquities. Many persons who would be puzzled to say what they are or where they can be found have at least heard of the Arundel Marbles. On this subject some interesting and amusing letters have been printed by Miss Hervey. Wishing to have excavations made in Greek lands and to remove works of art, Arundel solicited the good offices of Sir Thomas Roe, who, after returning from his famous Indian mission, had been appointed ambassador at Constantinople. Arundel had a zealous agent, a clergyman named Petty, who undertook the actual labour of collecting. But the duke of Buckingham was also forming a collection of antiques. He ' was " not so fond of antiquity to court it in a deformed or misshapen stone " but would not " stand upon any cost " if " beauty with antiquity " could be combined ' (p. 270). He likewise claimed Roe's assistance with the Turkish authorities. Roe could not refuse, but suggested to Arundel a division of the spoil, which Arundel declined. Roe especially desired to secure for his friends certain sculptures which adorned the Golden Gate of Constantinople. As a matter of course he tried corruption, but the sculptures were apparently regarded as a talisman of the city, so that any attempt to remove them would create a tumult. The only hopeful expedient, he thought, was to bribe tually he did purchase the consent of ' the great treasurer ', but when they
 * some churchman to dislike them as against their law ' (p. 272). Even-