Ancient Art and Ritual

For assistance of many kinds in preparing this book the thanks of the author are gratefully offered to Mr. Frederick William Gookin Mr. Howard Mansfield Mr. William S. Spaulding Mr. John T. Spaulding Mr. Judson D. Metzgar Mr. Charles H. Chandler Mr. John Stewart Happer Col. Henry Appleton Mrs. Arthur Aldis Mr. Ernest Oberholtzer and Mr. Charles August Ficke. Though many obligations must perforce go unacknowledged it would be improper to fail to state indebtedness to the writings of Von Seidlitz Bing Huish Anderson Strange Binyon Gookin Kurth Morrison Happer Koechlin Vignier Succo Field De Goncourt Okakura Edmunds Perzynski Wright Fenollosa and De Becker.Many collectors have kindly allowed their prints to be used for illustration in this book. That all the examples are from American collections is due to considerations of convenience not to any notion of their superiority. All prints not credited to another owner are from the collection of the author. The other collections from which illustrations are drawn are as follows:—Spaulding (William S. and John T.) Boston Massachusetts.Gookin (Frederick W.) Chicago Illinois.Mansfield (Howard) New York.Chandler (Charles H.) Evanston Illinois.Metzgar (Judson D.) Moline Illinois.Ainsworth (Miss Mary) Moline Illinois.Four of the poems herein printed appeared first in The Little Review. A number of the others are from the author''s book Twelve Japanese Painters. Most of the photographs here reproduced were prepared by Mr. J. H. Paarman Miss Sarah G. Foote-Sheldon and Mr. J. D. Metzgar.Davenport Iowa U.S.A.