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Other hand, T have not dared to put much confidence in any statement 

 unsupported by the testimony of the plates. So many flaws can be 

 found iu the accounts given by the various manuals of Egyptian history, 

 antiquities, and art which I could consult, that I have become entirely 

 distrustful of them all. 



Yet there is nothing so recondite or difficult about the subject as to 

 prevent its perfectly plain presentation. The statements of the fol- 

 lowing pages will all be of the most patent phenomena, so obvious 

 that it seems truly marvellous that no succinct account of them is 

 readily obtainable. It has been thought, indeed, that no clear separa- 

 tion of Egyptian columns into generic groups is possible, but this 

 notion, as the sequel will show, is not wholly true, for in most cases 

 the generic forms and the artistic conceptions on which they are based 

 are quite evident. 



1 have ventured to add to the descriptions of the various columnar 

 members a few notes on their mathematical proportions. These 

 remarks take the position of notes because the generalizations of 

 which they are the substance are drawn from too few examples to be 

 in any sense final. They are trustworthy as far as they go, and are of 

 some interest. 



While I have considerable faith in the engravings from which the 

 following descriptions are drawn, yet it is to be said that there is 

 abundant opportunity for correction and emendation in them and in 

 conclusions drawn from them. I only offer this study in the hope 

 that it may serve as a convenient summary of the data at hand until 

 something better appears. 



Johannes Dumichen: Archiiologische Expedition nach Aegypten. Photo- 

 graphische Resultate. Berlin, 1871. 



Le Vte. E. de Rouge': Album Photograph ique de la Mission Rcmplie en 

 Egypte. Paris, 18(34. 



Champollion-le-Jeune: Monuments de l'Egypte et de la Nubie. 400 plates 

 in 4 vols., with 2 vols, of descriptive text. Paris, 1835-1840. 



Jirles Gailhabaud: Monuments Anciens et Modernes. 4 vols. Paris, 1865. 



Charles Lenormant : Muse'e des Antiquite's Egyptiennes. Paris, 1835-1842. 



Ippolito Rosellini : I Monument! dell' Egitto e della Nubia. 9 vols, of text; 

 800 plates in 3 vols. Pisa, 1832-1844. 



Vivant Denon : Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte. 1 vol. of plates, 

 1 of text. Paris, 1832. 



, To this list ought also to be appended, for greater completeness, the title of a 

 new hook which I have had no opportunity to see, — P. M. de la Faye : Histoire 

 de 1'Art Egyptienne. Paris, 1879. — For further titles, see Catalogue of Books 

 on Egypt and Egyptology, and on Assyria and Assyriology, issued by Trubner 

 & Co., London, 1880. 



