embodied a wide range of xrorthologic.and esthetic concepts. 
WRIT IMG AHD THE GRAPHIC ARTS — To the history of writing 
aboriginal America makes many contributions, and these as in 
the other cases referred to are within that part of the history 
of progress where old world evidence is least satisfactory. 
In the old world we trace the history of writing back step 
by step to near the beginning of the glyphic system; in the 
new world we pass back from the lower margin <frf the glyphic 
to the very beginning of the graphic, thus completing the col- 
umn of progress in the evolution of the recording arts. 
With a knowledge of the present and pre-historic phase 
of picture writing it is easy to interpret and utilise the 
vast body of material in this branch furnished by archeology, 
but rich as is this material, insufficient light is thrown upon 
the particular state ox" development which witnessed the tran- 
sition from picture writing to phonic -writing, and archeologists 
find here one of the most fascinating field© of research* The 
