ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



TN making selections from the antique for the 

 -*- pictures in this book, I have been guided, not 

 so much by the interest or beauty of the originals, 

 considered as works of art, as by their usefulness 

 in explaining or illustrating the various subjects 

 which have been treated in the foregoing pages. 

 So, too, the following brief notes are not written 

 from the point of view of the art-critic, an office 

 to which I do not pretend ; but in them I have 

 given the immediate source from which each illus- 

 tration is taken, the museum or collection in 

 which the object itself is to be seen to-day, and, 

 wherever possible, the time of its production, and 

 the place where it was found. I have mentioned. 



