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'T^HE BEGINNINGS OF ART. By Ernst Grosse, 

 J- Professor of Philosophy in the University of Freiburg. A new 

 volume in the Anthropological Series, edited by Professor 

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



This is an inquiry into ttie 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 amon;^ the most primitive peoples, like the native 

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

 and 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 and arts of motion. The arts of rest comprise decoration, first of the body by 

 scarification, painting, tattooing, and dress \ and then of implements, painting, and 

 sculpture ; while the arts of motion are the dance (a living sculpture), poetty or song, 

 with rhythm, and music. 



T/f/'O MAN'S SHARE IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE. 



1^1^ By Otis Tufton Mason, A. M., Curator of the Department 



of Ethnology in the United States National Museum. With 



numerous Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



" A most interesting resume 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, 



"T^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 to illustrate the general subject than 

 Quatrefages. While constantly occupied upon the anatomical and osseous phases of 

 his subject, he was none the less well acquainted with what literature and historj- had 

 to say concerning the pygmies. . . . This book ought to be in everj- dinnity school 

 in which man as well as God is studied, and from which missionaries go out to con- 

 vert the human being of reality and not the man of rhetoric and text-books." — Boston 

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Y^HE BEGINNINGS OF WRITING. By W. J. 

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



$i.75- 

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

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

 which were traced on stone, wood, bone, skins, and various paperlike substances. Dr. 

 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 modem peoples. 



IN PREPARATION. 

 THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. By Dr. Schmeltz. 

 THE ZUA'I. By Frank Hamilton Gushing. 

 THE AZTECS. By Mrs. Zelia Nuttall. 



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