With these notices the author's object in this sketch is completed. Of
the _bal-masque_ garden dances, public balls and such-like, he has no
intention to treat; they are not classic dancing nor "art," with the
exception perhaps of the Scottish reels. Nor is he interested in the
dancing of savage tribes, nor in that of the East, although some few
illustrations are given to illustrate traditions: for example, the use
of the pipe and tabor in Patagonia, the dancer from Japan, winged,
like that in the "Roman de la Rose" (fig. 40), and the religious dance
of Tibet, showing the survival of the religious dance in some
countries. In Mrs. Groves' book on dancing there is an excellent
chapter on the Ritual dance as now practised, to which the reader can
refer.
[Illustration: Fig. 69.--Japanese Court Dance.] [Illustration: Fig.
70.--Indian dancing-girl.]
[Illustration: Fig. 71.--Patagonian dancers to fife and tabor.]
[Illustration: Fig. 72.--Tibetan religious dancing procession, 1908
A.D.]
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Baron, A. "Lettres et Entretiens sur la Danse.
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