Chapter XVII: Part I: Introductory--General Outlines. PART II.: Trabeated or Beam

Architecture--1. Egypt; 2. Chaldæa, Assyria, and Persia; 3. India; 4. China; 5. Japan; 6. Asia Minor; 7. Greece; 8. Sicily. PART III.: Round-Arched Architecture--1. Etruria and Rome; 2. Early Christian Churches; 3. Byzantine Churches; 4. Romanesque Churches; 5. Norman; 6. Saracenic. PART IV.: Pointed, or Gothic Architecture. PART V.: Renaissance Architecture--Architectural Examples which may be studied in London.

“Admirably adapted to fill the position it assumes. It explains in
the simplest possible manner the distinctions, not only between the
various styles of architecture, but between the different styles of
ornamentation; and in every case there is an illustration, which
cannot fail to fix in the mind the distinctions of which the author
has been talking.”--_Scotsman._

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Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation and formatting errors have been changed without notice; otherwise spelling and punctuation has been retained as published. The following Printer errors have been changed.

=CHANGED= =FROM= =TO=
Page 7: “MERYON’S Etching” “MÉRYON’S Etching”
Page 7: “_The Straw-Yard_” “_The Straw Yard_”
Page 33: “case is it an indispensible “case is it an indispensable
virtue” virtue”
Page 44: “Hollar a compact selecttion” “Hollar a compact selection”
Page 68: “and his _Bécheurs_” “and his _Bêcheurs_”
Page 72: “Galerie de Nôtre-Dame” “Galérie de Nôtre-Dame”
To face
Page 82: “MERYON: _La Morgue_” “MÉRYON: _La Morgue_”
Page 107: “_Coombe Bottom_, First “_Combe Bottom_, First
State” State”
Page 121: “_Lime Burners_” “_Lime-Burners_”
Page 121: “ghost--desperately “ghost--desperately
over-rated” overrated”
Page 144: “Arms with the Skull” “Arms with a Skull”
Page 147: “Arms with the Skull” “Arms with a Skull”
Page 159: “spoilt by the retouching” “spoilt by the re-touching”
Page 170: “Jean Baptiste Simeon “Jean Baptiste Siméon
Chardin” Chardin”
Page 172: “What French pictorial artist “What French pictorial
thought” artists thought”
Page 186: “_La Sortie de l’Opera_” “_La Sortie de l’Opéra_”
Page 243: “Jacopo de ’Barbarj” “Jacopo de’ Barbarj”
Page 256: “_Buffon and Two Couples_” “_Buffoon and Two Couples_”
Page 256: “_Chemise enlevée_” “_Chemise en levée_”
Page 256: “Arms with the Skull” “Arms with a Skull”
Page 256: “Dance by the Water-side” “_Dance by the Waterside_”
Page 257: “_Epées, Langues de Bœufs,_” “_Epées, Langues de Bœuf_”
Page 257: “_Etude de Jeune Fille_” “_Étude de Jeune Fille_”
Page 258: “_Jeu de Câche-câche_” “_Jeu de Cache-cache_”
Page 258: “_Little Boat-house_” “_Little Boathouse_”
Page 259: “_Mort et le Bucheron, La_” “_Mort et le Bûcheron, La_”

In the Index on Page 259, there is an entry for “Pennell, J., 131”. That name doesn’t appear on that page or anywhere else in the book.

All other inconsistencies are as in the original.