Upon the whole it would appear that the grotesque, be it in the relics of a long-forgotten symbolism, in crude attempts at realism, or in the fantastic whimseys of irresponsibility, is chiefly met in the portions of the church where would occur, in the development of architecture, the problems and difficulties. They occur, so to speak, at the joints of construction. It may be that the pluteresques (grotesque and other ornaments made of metal) employed in many Spanish churches are to be accounted for in this way on the score of the facility of attachment. Where it may be questioned that the ornament was to conceal juncture, it is often to be acknowledged that it was to give external apparent lightness to masses which are in themselves joints or centres of weight. To conclude--to whatever extent we may carry our inquiries into the meaning of the grotesques in church art, we have in them undoubtedly objects whose associations are among the most ancient of the human race; whatever our opinion of their fitness for a place in the temple, it is plain that practically they could be nowhere else. [Illustration: MUSICIAN ON THE INTERSECTION OF NAVE ARCHES, ST. HELEN'S, ABINGDON, BERKSHIRE.] INDEX. Index. Abdominal Mask, 91 Abingdon, 18, 72, 218, and Preface Aboo-Simbel Trinity, 177 Abydos Trinity, 177 Acanthus, 149-50, 214 Adam, 61, 62, 74; and Eve, 112, 120 Adam Clarke, 74 Adel, Yorkshire, 127 Adonai, 168 Adonis, 168 Adoration, the, 113-5 Ælian, 50 Æsculapius, 42 _Æsop's Fables_, 196 Africa, 66 Agni, 178 Aix-la-Chapelle, 46 Akori, 178 Alcock, Bishop, 10, 92, 173 Ale and the Alewife, 99-105 Alewife, 97 Alehouses, 99 Ale-taster, 100 Alexander, 71 Alexandria, 34 All Souls, Oxford, 71, 76, 104-5, 150-1 Alraun images, 28 Altar of the Sun, 37-39 Ambarvalia, 48 American Arms, 179 American-Indian mythology, 159 American-Indian Trinity, 177 Amman, Justus, 188 Ammon, 42, 72, 158 Amun-Ra, 177 _Ancient Mysteries described_, 180 Ancient Worships, 27-59, 64-77, 152-3, 157-168, 175-183 Angel Choir, Lincoln, 3, 9 Angel (coin), 47 Angels, 63 Animal Musicians, 152-6 Animal symbolism, 35 Anthony pig, the, 154 Anuka, 178 Archers, 205, 209-10 Ape, the, 59, 28-9, 145, 152, 156, 192-4, 198, 201, 203, 207-10, 214 Aphrodite, 168 Apocryphal New Testament, the, 60, 112 Apollo, 21, 46, 162, 165 April, 141 Apuleius, 41 Architectural Museum, Tufton Street, the, 12, 167, 169, 174 Arimanes, 176 Arles, the Council of, 29 Arma palantes, 173 Arthur, King, 69 Artistic quality of Church grotesques, 19-23, 61 _Art Journal, the_, 66 Asir, 45 Assyrian myth, 34, 157, 181 Assyrians, no record of their humour, 6 Astronomical symbols a source of Gothic design, 4, 27-8, 37-59, 73, 157-68, 177 Atahuata, 177 Aten, 168 Athor, 111, 157, 167, 177-8 Athyr, 167 Attic figurines, 28