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Show on reindeer horns and mammoth tuBks t vidence the antiquity of the art. Fragments Frag-ments of horn and ivory, engraved with excellent pictures of nnfmals, have been found in caves and beds of rivers and lakes. There are specimens in the liritish museum, also in the Louvre, of the Dgyptian skill in ivory carving, attributed at-tributed to the age of Moses. In the latter collection are chairs or seats of the sixteenth century B. C, inlaid with ivory, and other pieces of the eleventh century, It. C. We have already referred re-ferred to the Nineveh ivories. Carving of the "precious substance" was extensively exten-sively carried on at Constantinople during dur-ing the middle ages; combs, caskets, horns, boxes, etc., of carved ivory and bone, often set in precious stones, of the old Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods are frequently found in tombs. Crucifixes Cruci-fixes and images of the Virgin and saints made in that age are often graceful grace-ful and beautiful. The Chinese and Japanese are rival artists now in their peculiar minutiae and detail. IVORY USED BY THE ANCIENTS. rtcllea Show That the Prehistoric nnoen Krevr Ita Vnln. The earliest recorded history we might say prehistoric, the hieroglyph-ical hieroglyph-ical that has come down to us has been in carvings on Ivory nnd bone, says Appletons Popular Science Monthly. Month-ly. Long before metallurgy was known among the prehistoric races, carvings |