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2 INTRODUCTION. Stonehenge near Salisbury.(LUbke, Kunst des Altertums.) 
the political or religious ideas of the peoples, or the effects of foreign
influence—where by was formed the stylistic Ornament. Each style exhibits
one and the same plant and one and the same animal in a different fashion.
Each country sought the models for its own ornamentation in its own Fauna
and Flora, and each style had certain plants and animals which it preferred
to all others. Style is really more the product of one epoch of time rather
than of a single people, and it is according to this chronological stand-point
that the present work has been arranged. In keeping with ' the tendency of
the work, it may be remarked that the illustrations in the plates, title-pages,
vignettes &c., are all reproductions of such objects only as were really
produced at the period for which the style is characteristic.