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"J^HE BEGINNINGS OE ART. By Ernst 



-* Grosse, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Freiburg. 

 A new volume in the Anthropological Series, edited by Pro- 

 fessor Frederick Starr. Illustrated. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



This is an inquiry into the laws which control the life and development of art, and 

 into the relations existing between it and certain forms of civilization. The origin of 

 an artistic activity should be sought among the most primitive peoples, like the native 

 Australians, the Mincopies of the Andaman Islands, the Bjtocudos of South America, 

 ind the Eskimos ; and with these alone the author studies his subject Their arts are 

 regarded as a social phenomenon and a social function^ and are classified as arts of rest 

 4nd arts of motion. The arts of rest comprise decoration, firs^ of the bo(iy by scarifica- 

 tion, painting, tattooing, and dress; and then of implements— painting and sculpture; 

 while the arts of motion are the dance (a living sculpture), poetry or song, with rhj'thm, 

 and music. 



TJ/OMANS SHARE IN PRIMITIVE CUL- 

 '^ ^ TURE. By Otis Tufton Mason, A. M., Curator of the 

 Department of Ethnology in the United States National Mu- 

 seum. With numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



" A most interesting rhumd of the revelations which science has made concerning 

 the habits of human beings in primitive times, and especially as to the place, the duties, 

 and the customs of women." — Philadelphia Inquirer. 



"jr HE PYGMIES. By A. de Quatrefages, late 

 -^ Professor of Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, 

 Paris. With numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 

 " Probably no one was better equipped t j illustrate the general subject than Quatre- 

 fages. While constantly occupied upon the anatomical and osseous phases of his sub- 

 ject, he was none the less well ac(iuainted with what literature and history had to say 

 concerning the pygmies. ... This book ought to be in every divinity school in which 

 man as well as God is studied, and from which missionaries go out to convert the human 

 being of reality and not the man of rhetoric and icxX.-ho6\!is.— Boston Literary World. 



y^HE BEGINNINGS OE WRITING. By W. J. 

 -^ Hoffman, M. D. With numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, 

 $1.75. 



This interesting book gives a most attractive account of the rude methods employed 

 by primitive man for recording his deeds. The earhest writing consists of pictographs 

 which were traced on stone, wood, bone, skins, and various paperlike substances. \)r. 

 Hoffman shows how the several classes of symbols used in these records are to be in- 

 terpreted, and traces the growth of conventional signs up to syllabaries and alphabets— 

 the two classes of signs employed by modern peoples. 



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THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. By Dr. ScHMELTZ. 



THE ZUNI. By Frank Hamilton Gushing. 



THE AZTECS. By Mrs. Zelia Nuttall. 



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