CONTENTS.

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Introductory Chapter[1]
CHAPTER II.
Prehistoric Ornament—Palæolithic Period or Early Stone Age—River Drift and Cave-men[7]
CHAPTER III.
Neolithic Stone Period[14]
CHAPTER IV.
The Bronze Age[21]
CHAPTER V.
The Iron Age[35]
CHAPTER VI.
The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and other parts of Europe[48]
CHAPTER VII.
Egyptian Art—History—Architecture—Industrial Arts[55]
CHAPTER VIII.
Chaldean and Assyrian Art—History—Architecture—Industrial Art[112]
CHAPTER IX.
Phœnician Art—History—Trading—Architecture—Industrial Art—Art in Cyprus[158]
CHAPTER X.
Art in Ancient Persia—History—Architecture—Decoration[183]
CHAPTER XI.
Grecian Art—People—Mythology[208]
CHAPTER XII.
Art in Primitive Greece—Mycenæ—Troy—Tiryns—Architecture—Industrial art[225]
CHAPTER XIII.
Greek and Roman Orders of Architecture—Lycian Tombs—Greek Orders—Etruscan Architecture—Roman Orders[242]
CHAPTER XIV.
Greek and Roman Architectural Ornament—Pompeian Architecture[262]
CHAPTER XV.
Indian art and Architecture[271]
CHAPTER XVI.
Chinese and Japanese Architecture[281]
CHAPTER XVII.
Early Christian Architecture—Byzantine Architecture[285]
CHAPTER XVIII.
Saracenic Architecture and Ornament[301]
CHAPTER XIX.
Romanesque Architecture and Ornament[330]
CHAPTER XX.
Gothic Architecture and Ornament[348]
CHAPTER XXI.
Renaissance Architecture and Ornament[369]