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THE BRITISH MUSEUM

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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In our Museum galleries

To-day I lingered o'er the prize

Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes,

Her Art for ever in fresh wise

From hour to hour rejoicing me.

D. G. ROSSETTI.

The British Museum is open to the Public, free of charge, on every day in the year (except Good Friday and Christmas Day).

The hours of opening are, on week-days, from 10 A. M. to 6 P.M. (After 4 P.M. in January, February, November, and December, and after 5 P.M. in March, September, and October, the Greek and Roman Galleries are open only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.)

On Sundays the Exhibition Galleries are open from 2 P.M. to 4, 5, or 6 P.M., according to the season.

The British Museum is, on the whole, the best-ordered and pleasantest institution in all England, and the grandest concentration of the means of human knowledge in the world. -RUSKIN.

3. THE FIRST GRECO-ROMAN ROOM (Athletic Statues, etc.)

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4. THE SECOND GRECO-ROMAN ROOM (the Townley Venus,

Discobolus, etc.).

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5. THE THIRD GRECO-ROMAN ROOM

6. THE GRECO-ROMAN BASEMENT-

Other Antiquities

Etruscan Tombs

7. THE ROOM OF ARCHAIC GREEK SCULPTURE

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