GOIsrTElsrTS. 



PART I. 

 General Considerations. 



I'AGE. 



Section I. The Imitative. 279 



" II. Tlie Inventive 280 



" III. The Ethnic Value of Design 282 



" IV. The Realistic 284 



" V. The Conventional 285 



(a) General Remarks ; (b.) Conditions favoring the Conventional; (r.) The "Fantas- 

 tic;" [d.) Ethnic value of the Conventional ; (e.) " The Grotesque,;"' (/.) The 

 tendencies of the Conventional; ((/.) The Symbol; (A.) The Zoo-Myth; (i.) 

 Errors of Naturalists in depicting Animals. 

 " VI. The Dragon 299 



PART II. 

 The Study of Variants. 



Sjsction I. General Remarks, including the Lion FTead ■. . . 301 



" II. The Palm-Tree 308 



" III. The Serpent 314 



" IV. The Man 318 



A. The Head, (a.) The Full-Face. 1. The Gorgoneion. 2. The Transverse Facial 



Line. 3. The Radical of the Human Face. (b. ) The Profile. 



B. The Radical of Man 331 



" V. Other Variants from American Design 340 



" VI. Difficulties met with in analyzing the Life- Form 341 



" VII. The Study of Inscriptions and Piclographs ~346 



(350) 



