the comparison. Lord Avebury reproduces an Eskimo drawing, or
picture-message, in his "Prehistoric Times," to which it would be
difficult to find a parallel in Magdalenian remains. I do not mean
that the art is superior, but the complex life represented on the
picture-message, and the intelligence with which it is represented, are
beyond anything that we know of Palaeolithic man. I may add that nearly
all the drawings and statues of men and women which the Palaeolithic
artist has left us are marked by the intense sexual exaggeration--the
"obscenity," in modern phraseology--which we are apt to find in coarse
savages.

Three races are traced in this period. One, identified by skeletons
found at Mentone and by certain statuettes, was negroid in character.
Probably there was an occasional immigration from Africa. Another race
(Cro-Magnon) was very tall, and seems to represent an invasion from some
other part of the earth toward the close of the Old Stone Age. The third
race, which is compared to the Eskimo, and had a stature of about five
feet, seem to be the real continuers of the Palaeolithic man of Europe.
Curiously enough, we have less authentic remains of this race than
of its predecessor, and can only say that, as we should expect, the
ape-like features--the low forehead, the heavy frontal ridges, the
bulging teeth, etc.--are moderating. The needles we have found--round,
polished, and pierced splinters of bone, sometimes nearly as fine as a
bodkin--show indisputably that man then had clothing, but it is curious
that the artist nearly always draws him nude. There is also generally a
series of marks round the contour of the body to indicate that he had a
conspicuous coat of hair. Unfortunately, the faces of the men are merely
a few unsatisfactory gashes in the bone or horn, and do not picture
this interesting race to us. The various statuettes of women generally
suggest a type akin to the wife of the Bushman.

We have, in fine, a race of hunters, with fine stone knives and
javelins. Toward the close of the period we find a single representation
of an arrow, which was probably just coming into use, but it is not
generally known in the Old Stone Age. One of the drawings seems to
represent a kind of bridle on a horse, but we need more evidence than
this to convince us that the horse was already tamed, nor is there any
reason to suppose that the dog or reindeer had been tamed, or that the
ground was tilled even in the mos