A Maze Collector--The Labyrinth in Queer Places--The Maze on Paper and on the Sands--Mirror Mazes--A Temporary Hedge Maze--Maze Toys--A Verbal Labyrinth--The Maze in Place-names--A Plea for the Preservation of some Ancient Monuments 201-213 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 215-235 INDEX 237-254 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE MAZE AT HATFIELD, HERTS. (Photo, G. F. Green) _Frontispiece_ 1. EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH. Portion of Ruins, _circ._ 1700. (P. Lucas) _facing page_ 12 2. EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH. Shrine of Amenemhat III. (Flinders Petrie) _f.p._ 14 3. EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH. Restored Plan. (Canina) 15 4. EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH. Restored Plan. (Flinders Petrie) 16 5. CRETAN LABYRINTH. (Florentine Picture Chronicle) _f.p._ 18 6. CRETAN LABYRINTH. (Italian Engraving: School of Finiguerra) 21 7. CAVERN OF GORTYNA. (Sieber) _f.p._ 28 8. KNOSSOS. Maze-pattern on Wall of Palace. (After Evans) 32 9. DOUBLE-AXE AND SOCKET FROM DICTAEAN CAVE. (Evans) _f.p._ 31 10. TOMB OF DOUBLE AXES. Plan. (Evans) 33 11. TOMB OF DOUBLE AXES. View of the Cist. (Evans) _f.p._ 33 12. BRONZE DOUBLE AXE FROM TOMB OF DOUBLE AXES. (Evans) _f.p._ 43 13. TOMB OF LARS PORSENA AT CLUSIUM. Restoration. (Q. de Quincy) _f.p._ 38 14. POGGIO CAJELLA. Labyrinthine Cemetery. (Dennis) _f.p._ 40 15, 16, 17, 18. EARLY EGYPTIAN SEALS AND PLAQUES. (British Museum) _f.p._ 43 19. EARLY EGYPTIAN PLAQUE OR AMULET. (Prof. Flinders Petrie's Collection, Univ. Coll., London) 43 20 to 25. COINS OF KNOSSOS. (British Museum) _f.p._ 44 26 to 31. COINS OF KNOSSOS. (British Museum) _f.p._ 46 32. GRAFFITO AT POMPEII. (Mus. Borb. XIV. 1852) 46 33. MOSAIC AT SALZBURG. (Kreuzer) 47 34. MOSAIC AT CAERLEON. (O. Morgan) _f.p._ 48 35. MOSAIC AT VERDES, LOIR-ET-CHER. (De Caumont) 49 36. MOSAIC AT CORMEROD, SWITZERLAND. (Mitt. Ant. Ges. Zurich, XVI) _f.p._ 48 37. MOSAIC AT SUSA, TUNIS. (C. R. Acad. Inscriptions, Paris, 1892) 50 38. GREEK KYLIX, SHOWING EXPLOITS OF THESEUS. (British Museum) _f.p._ 52