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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
The repairs of the Parthenon are drawing to a close and visitors coming to Athens next Easter may hope to see the temple freed from its casing of timber. They must be prepared for other changes also. Already the removal of part of the scaffolding and the re-erection of it in July round the Erechtheum have shown that the Greek authorities intend to carry into effect the scheme for rebuilding the North Porch and West Wall which aroused some vigorous protests when it was publicly announced in April. The Parthenon repairs have been works of conservation. The present scheme is one of restoration, and it is natural therefore that it should have aroused a good deal of hostile criticism.
1 I have to thank Mr. Kavvadias and Mr. Byzantinos for their courtesy in supplying me with copies of the Report on the Erechtheum by Mr. Balanos, dated October 1901, of the Report of the Committee, dated March 26, 1902, and of the 
issued by Mr. Mompherratos and dated April 4, 1902.—R.C.B.
2 A criticism of these proposals by Mr. R. W. Schultz, in the Athenaeum of June 28, contains two important recommendations, that the metal supports should be entirely encased in concrete and made to look exactly what they are—modern expedients; and that the ties or cramps used should be not of iron but of bronze or gun-metal.
