For even when the cave-man retreated from the advance of the polar cap, which once covered Europe with Arctic desolation, he not only defied the elements but showed even then the love of the sublime by beautifying the walls of his icy prison with those mural decorations which were the beginning of art.

The industrial revolution, which has more profoundly affected man in the last century and a half than all the changes which had theretofore taken place in the life of man since the cave-dweller, was only then beginning.

The most interesting study in Bombay is the people, but there are several excursions into the country around well worth making, particularly those that take you to the cave temples of the Hindus, which have been excavated with infinite labor and pains out of the solid rock.

"Every one for himself," would he say, as he rolled himself in his skins, "and the cave-bear, or any other handy beast, take the hindmost."

With a leap that would have done credit to a cave-woman, Miss Giddings landed in safety behind the table.

But returning close to the coast we happened upon a cave mouth more or less guarded by an outlying rock.

It was among the recesses of this range that Grey discovered some curious cave paintings of the blacks, in which the aboriginal figures were represented as clothed.

Before the rudest cave-pictures were scratched on the stone, the story-teller, it is not unreasonable to suppose, was plying his trade.

And then fancy played another trick on me, and I seemed to see a man lying on the cave-floor with a drawn white face upturned, and a red hole in the forehead; and at last could bear the dark no longer, but got up with my lame leg and groped round till I found a candle, for we had two or three in store.

Days before houses; a story of cave people.

Partly to fill her lonely moments, but more because it was an instinct with her, Beatrice took an ever-increasing interest in her cave home.

she cried, running up the steep way toward the cave spring-house.

8 Detail from the Buddhist cave-reliefs of Lung-men.

The cave mystery; a boy's story of the Spanish Pyrenees, by S. S. Smith, pseud.

The details consisted principally of cave-dwellings and cracked marrow-bones, intersprinkled with fierce carnivora, hairy mammoths, and combats with rude flaked knives of flint; but the sensations were delicious.

These two Polynesian cave-stories are of interest from several points of view.

They did their cooking in front of the cave door, but it was always a smothered fire.

The next description of cave burial, by W. H. Dall, is so remarkable that it seems worthy of admittance to this paper.

Even Elzevir, though he did not show it, was moved, I thought, at heart; and we chafed in our cave prison, and those eight days went wearily enough.

And if such men could not hinder Fate's resistless rise and fall, How can we expect exemption From the common lot of all? Let us frankly face the prospect That man's progress here may fail; That the race may never triumph, But again descend the scale, Till the last surviving savage To his glacial cave retires, And earth's tragic drama closes, As humanity expires!

So we sat huddled in the corner by the glowing logs, the red light flickering on the cave roof, and showing the lines on Ratsey's face; while the steam rose from his drying clothes.

I followed her back to the castle; through the marble halls and up to the little cave room.

Some species, such as the cave spiders, are totally blind.

He was buried at the cave-spring camp, and the highest hill in the neighbourhood was christened Mount Farmer.

CA`CUS, a mythological brigand of gigantic stature who occupied a cave in Mount Aventine, represented by Virgil as breathing smoke and flames of fire; stole the oxen of Hercules as he was asleep, dragging them to his cave tail foremost to deceive the owner; strangled by Hercules in his rage at the deception quite as much as the theft.