ABSTRACT
DURING the last decade there has been aroused great interest in the Etruscans, accompanied by a greatly in-creased output of articles, monographs, and books. This material is very unequal in value-some of it is quite worthless, especially on the linguistic side, for example, two recent and widely advertised claims to have interpreted the Etruscan language. A little experience will usually suffice to enable the critical reader to judge for himself the true merits of much of this writing and the conjectural nature of the many conflicting theories and hypotheses that are so freely advanced. In the bibliographical notes appended to this chapter merely a selection is given, indicating a few of the more important works, with the help of which the student may refer to the rest according to his needs, after learning to steer himself before embarking on this flood of " Etruscology ".
