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pictures. M. Breuil, who had discovered wall-pictures, 

 including those of the mammoth, in French caves, and 

 had been met by disbelief and even suspicion, now received 

 due recognition, and joined Cartailhac in preparing a 

 complete account of the wall and roof pictures of the 

 Altamira cave. The Prince of Monaco, who had carried 

 out, with the aid of French experts, an investigation of 

 the caves on his property at Mentone, on the Mediter- 

 ranean " Riviera," undertook the expense of producing 

 a splendid volume, giving coloured reproductions of the 

 Altamira pictures. To him the world is indebted, not 

 only for most important discoveries of human skeletons 

 and objects of human workmanship in the caves of 

 Mentone (there are no wall-pictures there), but for the 

 publication in illustrated form of the Mentone discoveries 

 and of those obtained in the Altamira cave. He has not 

 rested at this stage of accomplishment, but has produced 

 at his own expense large volumes by MM. Breuil, Capitan, 

 and Peyrony, illustrating and describing the discoveries 

 made by them of wall-paintings and engravings of animals 

 in the cave known as the " Font de Gaume," in the 

 Dordogne. The Prince has also published a volume, by 

 MM. Breuil, de Rio, and Sierra, reproducing the drawings 

 found in a whole series of caves and rock-shelters in 

 various parts of the Spanish peninsula, where the rock- 

 painting race seems to have persisted to a somewhat later 

 period and to have painted, more frequently, pictures of 

 human beings as w r ell as of animals. These, whilst less 

 artistic and truthful than those of the North Spanish and 

 South French area, yet have surpassing interest, since they 

 have special similarity to ancient rock-paintings found in 

 North Africa and to the rock-paintings of the Bushmen 

 of South Africa. 



The Prince of Monaco has finally established the 

 great study in which he has played so valuable a part by 



