Book Reviews and Notices which was initiated in that era. But since his analysis ends with the events up to 1935, he has been forced to omit a treatment of the manner in which the Roosevelt Administration successfully improved both the material and spiritual welfare of these people. Where formerly there was widespread poverty, accompanied by deficit Federal appropriations, there is now practical self-sufficiency; where previously the question of political allegiance was in doubt, today the people are American citizens; and where in other days the Virgin Islanders were violently critical of Federal intentions and policies, their interests are now directed toward inplementing the many reforms. The final chapter, "Epilogue on Politics," fails to consider the events of the last decade. Had it considered them, Dr. Evans' conclusions would probably have reflected the progress in this area. The book, however, should encourage other students of colonial administration to do research along similar lines in our other Territories and Outlying Possessions. Editor: Bibliography of the Virgin Islands The College of the City of New York Charles F. Reid Yankee Stonecutters: The First American School of Sculpture 1800- 18jo. By Albert TenEyck Gardner. (New York: Columbia University Press for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. 84 pages+13 unnumbered pages of plates. $4.00.) Mr Gardner, Research Fellow on the staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has provided a readable and informative volume on our "First American School of Sculpture." He has succeeded admirably in making what might otherwise have become a dull subject into a charming and absorbing story. By shifting the spotlight away from a merely factual account of the lives and works of our early 19th-century sculptors, the author endeavors to "treat the subject as a part of the larger pattern of American life" and in so doing creates such an interesting historical and social background that future students will certainly be stimulated to continue his research. Begun originally as a catalogue of the collection of early 19th-century American sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the printed volume finally relegated this feature to an appendix. Meanwhile, the author had become so absorbed in what he calls the "curiosities" explaining the rise of the first American school of sculpture, that he devotes all of Part I of his book to reviewing and examining these facts. In six informal essays, enlivened by occasional humorous reflections on the artistic quality of the marbles, Mr. Gardner discusses the problems of patronage of these early sculptors and the consequent effect upon the character and development of their work; the sudden appearance 5°