ANIMALS IN EASTERN FICTION[306]

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THE GROWTH OF MODERN IDEAS ABOUT ANIMALS[336]
INDEX[367]

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE EMPEROR AKBAR PERSONALLY DIRECTING THE TYING UP OF A WILD ELEPHANT. Tempera painting in the “Akbar Namah,” by Abu’l Fazl (1597-98). India Museum. Photographed for this work.[Frontispiece]
DEER WORSHIPPING THE WHEEL OF THE LAW. Tope of Sanchi, drawn by Lieut.-Col. Maisey
From Fergusson’s “Tree and Serpent Worship.” By permission of the India Office.		[11]
THE BUDDHISTIC TIGER
From a painting on silk by Ko-Tō in the British Museum. Photographed for this work.
In Japanese Buddhism the Tiger is the type of Wisdom.		[21]
ORPHEUS
Fresco found at Pompeii. (Sommer.)		[32]
STELE WITH CAT AND BIRD
Athens Museum.		[40]
CAPITOLINE SHE-WOLF
(Bruckmann.) Bronze statue. Early Etruscan style. The twins are modern.		[44]
LION BEING LED FROM THE ARENA BY A SLAVE
From the mosaic pavement of a Roman villa at Nennig.		[47]
BACCHUS RIDING ON A PANTHER
Mosaic found at Pompeii. (Sommer.) 		[74]
BRONZE STATUE OF AN EGYPTIAN CAT
From the Collection of H.E. Monsieur Camille Barrère, French Ambassador at Rome		[82]
REINDEER BROWSING. OLDER STONE AGE
Found in a cave at Thayngen in Switzerland.		[86]
HORSE DRAWING DISC OF THE SUN. OLDER BRONZE AGE
National Museum at Copenhagen.		[86]
HATHOR COW
Found in 1906 by Dr. Édouard Naville at Deir-el-bahari. By permission of the Egypt Exploration Fund.		[102]
WILD GOATS AND YOUNG
Assyrian Relief. British Museum. (Mansell.) 		[108]
ASSYRIAN GOD CARRYING ANTELOPE AND WHEAT-EAR
British Museum. (Mansell.)		[116]
COUNTING CATTLE
Egyptian Fresco. British Museum. (Mansell.)		[128]
KING FIGHTING GRIFFIN (“BAD ANIMAL”)
Relief in Palace of Darius at Persepolis. Photographed by Jane Dieulafoy. From “L’Art Antique de la Perse.” By permission of M. Marcel Dieulafoy.		[142]
THE REAL DOG OF IRAN
Bronze Statuette found at Susa. Louvre. From Perrot’s “History of Art in Ancient Persia.” By permission of Messrs. Chapman & Hall, Ltd.		[152]
BUDDHA PACIFYING AN INTOXICATED ELEPHANT WHICH HAD BEEN SENT TO DESTROY HIM. THE ELEPHANT STOOPS IN ADORATION
Græco-Buddhist sculpture from a ruined monastery at Takt-i-Bahi. India Museum. Photographed for this work.		[188]
RECLINING BULL
Ancient Southern Indian sculpture. From a photograph in the India Museum.		[192]
WILD BULLS AND TAMED BULLS
Reliefs on two gold cups found in a tomb at Vapheio near Amyclae. Fifteenth century B.C. (possibly earlier). From Schuckhardt’s “Schliemann’s Excavations.” By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.		[201]
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
By Rubens. Hague Gallery. (Bruckmann.)		[208]
GENESIS VIII.
Loggie di Raffaello. In the Vatican. Drawn by N. Consoni.		[212]
DANIEL AND THE LIONS
From an early Christian Sarcophagus in S. Vitale, Ravenna. (Alinari.)		[216]
“AN INDIAN ORPHEUS”
Inlaid marble work panel originally surmounting a doorway in the Great Hall of Audience in the Mogul Palace at Delhi (about 1650). Photographed for this work from a painting by a native artist in the India Museum. Imitated from a painting by Raphael.		[222]
MOSLEM BEGGAR FEEDING DOGS AT CONSTANTINOPLE
From life.		[226]
ST. JEROME EXTRACTING A THORN FROM THE PAW OF A LION
By Hubert van Eyck. Naples Museum. (Anderson.)		[253]
ST. EUSTACE (OR ST. HUBERT) AND THE STAG
By Vittore Pisano. National Gallery. (Hanfstängl.)		[256]
“LE MENEUR DES LOUPS”
Designed and drawn by Maurice Sand.		[276]
THE ASSYRIAN HORSE
From a relief in the British Museum. (Mansell.)		[284]
ARABIAN HORSE OF THE SAHARA
From life.		[288]
THE BANYAN DEER
From “Stûpa of Bharhut.” By General Cunningham. By permission of the India Office. (Griggs.)		[328]
EGYPTIAN OFFICIAL, WITH HIS WIFE, ENGAGED IN FOWLING IN THE PAPYRUS SWAMP. HIS HUNTING CAT HAS SEIZED THREE BIRDS.
Mural painting in British Museum. (Mansell.)		[330]
ASSYRIAN LION AND LIONESS IN PARADISE PARK
British Museum. (Mansell.) The King’s reservations for big game were called “paradises.”		[336]
LAMBS
Relief on a fifth century tomb at Ravenna. (Alinari.)		[338]
“IL BUON PASTORE”
Mosaic in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia at Ravenna.		[346]

LT COL. MAISEY DEL. W. BRIGGS, LITH.
DEER WORSHIPPING THE WHEEL OF THE LAW.
Tope of Sanchi.