THE DORE BIBLE GALLERY ...... 8027 .07 189-3 C 462,757 : f *SA PELANG KIVERSITY OF MIC NIVERSITY OF MICH THE DO TES MICHIGAN CHIGAN 1817 IL·LIBRARIES · N 8037 07 . ܝ ܐ my h Hold m U j A Rang ...... WARD INS MA ja je Mistake Abidi Vidla GUSTAVE DORÉ. KINEZ S רי Peppers No Be BROO MIRCH THE DORE Bible Gallery, : CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED SUPERB ILLUSTRATIONS AND A PAGE OF EXPLANATORY LETTER-PRESS FACING EACH. ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORÉ NEW YORK: J. S. OGILVIE, PUBLISHER, 57 ROSE STREET. Um 8027 189 ? gift Jecken Co, Lip, 8-2-37 PREFACE. THIS volume, as its title indicates, is a collection of engravings illustrative of the Bible- the designs being all from the pencil of the greatest of modern delineators, Gustave Doré. The original work, from which this collection has been made, met with an immediate and warm recognition and acceptance among those whose means admitted of its purchase, and its popu- larity has in no wise diminished since its first publication, but has even extended to those who could only enjoy it casually or in fragmentary parts. That work, however, in its en- tirety, was far too costly for the larger and ever-widening circle of M. Doré's admirers, and to meet the felt and often-expressed want of this class, and to provide a volume of choice and valuable designs upon sacred subjects for art-loving Biblical students generally, this work was projected and has been carried forward. The aim has been to introduce subjects of gen- eral interest—that is, those relating to the most prominent events and personages of Scripture -those most familiar to all readers; the plates being chosen with special reference to the known taste of the American people. To each cut is prefixed a page of letter-press, in nar- rative form, and containing generally a brief analysis of the design. Aside from the labors of the editor and publishers, the work, while in progress, was under the painstaking and careful scrutiny of artists and scholars not directly interested in the undertaking, but still having a generous solicitude for its success. It is hoped, therefore, that its general plan and execution will render it acceptable both to the appreciative and friendly patrons of the great artist, and to those who would wish to possess such a work solely as a choice collection of illustrations upon sacred themes. (V) THE GUSTAVE DORÉ. THE subject of this sketch is, perhaps, the most original and variously gifted designer the world has ever known. At an age when most men have scarcely passed their novitiate in art, and are still under the direction and discipline of their masters and the schools, he had had won a brilliant reputation, and readers and scholars everywhere were gazing on his work with ever-increasing wonder and delight at his fine fancy and multifarious gifts. He has raised illustrative art to a dignity and importance before unknown, and has developed capacities for the pencil before unsuspected. He has laid all subjects tribute to his genius, explored and embellished fields hitherto lying waste, and opened new and shining paths and vistas where none before had trod. To the works of the great he has added the lustre of his genius, bringing their beauties into clearer view and warming them to fuller life. His delineations of character, in the different phases of life, from the horrible to the grotesque, the grand to the comic, attest the versatility of his powers; and, whatever faults may be found by critics, the public will heartily render their quota of admiration to his magic touch, his rich and facile rendering of almost every thought that stirs, or lies yet dor- mant, in the human heart. It is useless to attempt a sketch of his various beauties; those who would know them best must seek them in the treasure-house that his genius is constantly augmenting with fresh gems of wealth. To one, however, of his most prominent traits we will refer his wonderful rendering of the powers of Nature. His early wanderings in the wild and romantic passes of the Vosges doubtless developed this inherent tendency of his mind. There he wandered, and there, mayhap, imbibed that deep delight of wood and valley, mountain-pass and rich ravine, whose variety of form and detail seems endless to the enchanted eye. He has caught the very spell of the wilder- ness; she has laid her hand upon him and he has gone forth with her blessing. So bold and truthful and minute are his countless representations of forest scenery; so delicate the tracery of branch and stem; so patriarchal the giant boles of his woodland monarch, that the gazer is at once satisfied and entranced His vistas lie slumbering with repose either in shadowy glade or fell ravine, either with glint of lake or the glad, long course of some rejoicing stream; and above all, supreme in a beauty all its own, he spreads a canopy of peerless sky, or a wil- derness, perhaps, of angry storm, or peaceful stretches of soft, fleecy cloud, or heavens serene and fair-another kingdom to his teeming art after the earth has rendered all her gifts. (vii) Paul Gustave Doré was born in the city of Strasburg, January 10, 1833. Of his boyhood we have no very particular account. At eleven years of age, however, he essayed his first artistic creations-a set of lithographs, published in his native city. The following year found him in Paris, entered as a student at the Charlemagne Lyceum. His first actual work began in 1848, when his fine series of sketches, the "Labors of Hercules," was given to the public, through the medium of an illustrated journal with which he was for a long time connected as designer. In 1856 were published the illustrations for Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" and those for "The Wandering Jew "-the first humorous and grotesque in the highest degree-indeed showing a perfect abandoninent to fancy; the other, weird and supernatural, with fierce battles, shipwrecks, turbulent mobs, and nature in her most forbidding and terrible aspects. Every incident or suggestion that could possibly make the story more effective or add to the horror of the scenes was seized upon and portrayed with wonderful power. These at once gave the young designer a great reputation, which was still more enhanced by his subsequent works. With all his love for nature and his power for interpreting her in her varying moods, Doré was a dreamer, and many of his finest achievements were in the realm of the imagina- tion. But he was at home in the actual world also, as witness his designs for Atala, "London-a Pilgrimage," and many of the scenes of "Don Quixote." When account is taken of the variety of his designs and the fact considered that in almost every task he attempted none had ventured before him, the amount of work he ac- complished is fairly incredible. To enumerate the immense tasks he undertook-some single volumes alone containing hundreds of illustrations-will give some faint idea of his industry. Besides those already mentioned are Montaigne, Dante, the Bible, Milton, Rabelais, Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," "The Ancient Mariner," Shakespeare, "Legende de Croquemitaine," "La Fontaine's Fables," and others still. (( (viii) "" Take one of these works-the Dante, La Fontaine, or "Don Quixote "-and glance at the pictures. The mere hand labor involved in their production is surprising; but when the qual- ity of the work is properly estimated, what he accomplished seems prodigious. No particu- lar mention need be made of him as a painter or a sculptor, for his reputation rests solely upon his work as an illustrator. Doré's nature was exuberant and buoyant, and he was youthful in appearance. He had a passion for music, and possessed rare skill as a violinist, and it is assumed that, had he failed to succeed with his pencil, he could have won a brilliant reputation as a musician. He was a bachelor, and lived a quiet, retired life with his mother-married, as he expressed it, to her and his art. His death occurred on January 23, 1883. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. GUSTAVE DORÉ, CREATION OF EVE, THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN, THE MURDER OF ÁBEL, THE DELUGE, NOAH CURSING HAM, THE TOWER OF BABEL, ABRAHAM ENTERTAINS THREE STRANGERS, THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM, THE EXPULSION OF HAGAR, HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS, TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM, THE BURIAL OF SARAH, ELIEZER AND REBEKAH, ISAAC BLESSING JACOB, JACOB TENDING THE FLOCKS OF LABAN, JOSEPH SOLD INTO EGYPT, JOSEPH INTERPRETING PHARAOH'S DREAM," JOSEPH MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN, MOSES IN THE BULRUSHES, THE WAR AGAINST GIBEON, SISERA SLAIN BY JAEL, 1 DEBORAH'S SONG OF TRIUMPII, JEPHTHAII MET BY HIS DAUGHTER, JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND HER COMPANIONS, SAMSON SLAYING THE LION, SAMSON AND DELILAH, DEATH OF Samson, NAOMI AND HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW, • C (ix) 鑷 ​。 . Frontispiece ૩૭ 1 2 3 4 10 ہے 5 6 со 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ~~ ૭ (૭ 21 CO 26 ༡༩ 28 RUTH AND BOAZ, THE RETURN OF THE ARK, SAUL AND DAVID, DAVID SPARES SAUL, DEATH OF SAUL, THE DEATH OF ABSALOM, DAVID MOURNING OVER ABSALOM, SOLOMON, THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON, THE CEDARS DESTINED FOR THE TEMPLE, THE PROPHET SLAIN BY A LION, ELIJAH DESTROYING THE MESSENGERS OF AHAZIAH, ELIJAH'S ASCENT IN A CHARIOT OF FIRE, THE DEATH OF JEZEBEL, ESTHER CONFOUNDING HAMAN, ISAIAH, THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB'S HOST, BARUCH, EZEKIEL PROPHESYING, THE VISION OF EZEKIEL, DANIEL, THE FIERY FURNACE, BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST, DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, THE PROPHET AMOS, JONAH CALLING NINEVEH TO REPENTANCE, DANIEL CONFOUNDING THE PRIESTS OF Bel, HELIODORUS PUNISHED IN THE TEMPLE, THE NATIVITY, THE STAR IN THE EAST, THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, JESUS QUESTIONING THE DOCTORS, JESUS HEALING THE SICK, SERMON ON THE MOUNT, CHRIST STILLING THE TEMPEST, • C 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 477 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 (x) THE DUMB MAN POSSESSED, CHRIST IN THE SYNAGOGUE. THE DISCIPLES PLUCKING CORN ON THE SABBATH, JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER, CHRIST'S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM, JESUS AND THE TRIBUTE MONEY, THE WIDOW's MITE, RAISING THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS, THE GOOD SAMARITAN, ARRIVAL OF THE SAMARITAN AT THE INN, THE PRODIGAL SON, LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN, THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN, JESUS AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA, JESUS, AND THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY, THE RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS, MARY MAGDALENE, THE LAST SUPPER, THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN, PRAYER OF JESUS IN THE GARDEN OF OLIVES, THE BETRAYAL, CHRIST FAINTING UNDER THE CROSS, THE FLAGELLATION, THE CRUCIFIXION, THE CLOSE OF THE CRUCIFIXION, THE BURIAL OF JESUS, THE ANGEL AT THE SEPULCHRE, THE JOURNEY TO EMMAUS, THE ASCENSION, MARTYRDOM OF ST. STEPHEN, SAUL'S CONVERSION, DELIVERANCE OF ST. PETER, PAUL AT EPHESUS, PAUL MENACED BY THE JEWS, PAUL'S SHIPWRECK, DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE, . (xi) • 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 2 73 71 15 76 îî 18 19 80 રે 81 82 83 84 85 86 ぶ ​88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 9 98 99 100 CREATION OF EVE. See Genesis ii. THE HE Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh." In the scene in Paradise here depicted, the story of Eve's creation is told with entire appropriateness. The artist shows fine poetic sensibility and the utmost delicacy of thought, and brings us face to face with all the freshness, simplicity and glowing beauty of the Gar- den just finished by the hand of God. Amid the varied and luxuriant foliage are three luminous figures-beautifully conceived, and executed with delicate white touches upon a pale background. The figure of Adam, though in profound repose, still palpitates with life. Eve, coy and debonair, gazes upon him with wonder, while in the dazzling light beyond stands a majestic form, faintly outlined-a noble conception of him in whose image man was created. • 1 จ 1 ARE TRICHONEN AUSIES THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN. See Genesis iii. J HE happiness of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden did not long continue. The Serpent appeared and tempted Eve, by offering her the forbidden fruit, and she in turn beguiled Adam. When they had thus broken the commandment of God, their "eyes were opened," and they no longer appeared to each other innocent as before; and when they heard the voice of God in the garden, their consciences smote them and in fear they sought to hide themselves from his face. But God summoned them before him, pronounced judgment upon their transgression, and banished them from the garden. The expulsion is thus described by Milton in "Paradise Lost:" "6 They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them soon: The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way." In the picture Adam and Eve are fleeing from the threatening figure that guards the way of "the tree of life.", Adam seems stunned with amazement and fear at the new scene which opens before him, while Eve clings to him, with head bowed in sorrow and remorse. Un- sightly shrubs and broken rocks cumber the ground around them; thick brambles stretch across their hard, dry path; and from his cragged lair a crouching wild beast sends forth a threatening growl. The beauty and luxuriance of the foliage that bounds the garden are strikingly contrasted with the rugged and sterile scene which lies beyond. 2 SUDO duf gadéu E Uli H. PISAN. ૨૭ THE MURDER OF ABEL. See Genesis iv. A FTER Adam and Eve had been driven from the garden of Eden, their children Cain and Abel were born. The record of their lives is brief. We are told that Cain became a tiller of the soil and Abel a keeper of sheep, and then follows the account of the awful tragedy with which their names will be forever linked-one as the type of gentleness and obedience, the other as the embodiment of envy, rebellion and revenge. We read thus: "And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offer- ing unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof : and the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering. But unto Cain, and to his offering, he had not respect: and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen? If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. "And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground. And now thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou has driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a vaga- bond in the earth: and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven fold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him, should kill him.' "" 3 Dory - F PSA 3 co THE DELUGE. See Genesis vii. WHA HAT a thrilling and terrifying scene is here placed before us-showing perhaps the last place of refuge from the rising waters of the Flood which, as the Bible records, over- whelmed the world, because of the wickedness of the people, and ingulfed and destroyed all living, all breathing things-the tender infant, the blooming youth, fathers, mothers, grandsires-all save the righteous family of Noah in the Ark, and the beasts and birds and creeping things he was commanded by God to save by sevens and by pairs to again replenish the earth. The people had gone on in their wickedness, and as the torrents descended ceaselessly and the gathering waters began to swell around their homes, doubtless they withdrew slowly from the valleys and pleasant fields, regretfully gazing behind, and perhaps wondering how much would be spared of their habitations, of their crops of grain and their vineyards; but the flood followed them on, rapidly driving them froin slope to slope, and what terror and anguish must have seized upon them as, in its swift pursuit, nunibers of them began to be swept away or swallowed up, and they came to see that the hills were surely sinking under their feet. How they must have watched with straining eyes from lofty peaks the waters raging beneath, or listened to their roar and fury, with hearts subdued by fear, in the darkness of the night. And when finally, looking higher and higher for safety, they are driven to the giddy crags of the mountains, who can picture their despair? What cries and groans and bitter wailings must have left their lips! what piercing shrieks have rent the air, as fathers or mothers were torn from their little ones! In the picture before us the artist has strikingly depicted the wildness and horror of the scene. We see the waters surging in hollow waves, till their foreboding blackness mingles with a sky heavy and dark and pitiless as they-the remorseless powers of nature unrestrained. In the foreground a single rock still meets the tempest's shock, and around it have gathered, or have been swept the few survivors of the perishing host. A tigress has gathered her young about her, and almost at her feet cluster the babes of the hapless pair who are perishing in the flood below, their last feeble strength being given to place their little ones beyond the reach of the breakers. The infant stretches out his hand imploringly towards its mother, but she has sunk unconscious upon the father's breast. 4 Sa pag- YEYE mini HIMIO MUGSTA LEBEN MIS. A GDO 4 NOAH CURSING HAM. See Genesis ix. THE HE scene in which Noah is represented as cursing his second son is ably conceived, representing the pastoral simplicity of the time effectively-the prominent grouping, in the foreground, of the principal characters in the history, conforming itself to the spirit of the incident. Noah, with arm uplifted, hurls the dread malediction upon his son, while on either side, in attitudes of wonder, grief and acquiescent condemnation, Shem and Japheth, with their wives, look on. The flying family of Ham, his stricken partner, with back- ward look of pain regarding her lost companions, the wondering children and the shrinking form of the culprit, are an admirable culmination of the description of the tale. 5 - int mus Hithe W S SIMP 5 THE TOWER OF BABEL. See Genesis xi. T HERE has been much inquiry concerning the location of this remarkable tower. Accord- ing to tradition, its site was the same as that of the great Temple of Belus, near Babylon, which Nebuchadnezzar found in ruins and restored. The present ruins are called Birs Nimrod (citadel of Nimrod). They bear inscriptions in the cuneiform character, among which the name of Nebuchadnezzar frequently appears. Herodotus visited the spot about 450 B.C., and described the temple then existing as "a solid tower a stadium in depth and width, upon which another tower is raised, and another upon that, to the num- ber of eight towers." Of the original structure upon this site we have no knowledge except that derived from the brief account in Genesis. No description of its form is given, and the spiral stairway presented in the engraving is simply a reproduction by the artist of the form given to it in older but purely fanciful pictures. We read as follows: "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another: Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thor- oughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said: Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said: Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let- us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the City. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." 6 . م 6 ABRAHAM ENTERTAINS THREE STRANGERS. See Genesis xviii. W HEN Abraham was commanded to leave his kindred in Ur of the Chaldees, and make foi himself a new home in Canaan, it was with the assurance that this goodly land, rich in pastures and flowing with milk and honey, should be given him and become the inheritance of his children. This promise was renewed again and again; and even when Abraham and Sarah had become old-when they had far exceeded the usual age allotted to man, and were yet childless-the promise was still held forth to Abraham that he should become the father of a great nation; that his children, his children's children and their heirs forever, should possess Canaan; and that the care and favor and blessing of God should be manifested towards them in a peculiar manner. Abraham believed that all these promises would be made good, for he walked in the favor of God, and thus far his life had been attended with many blessings. Honor and power had been bestowed upon him, he had acquired vast possessions, and was regarded as a mighty prince in the land to which he came a stranger. One day, sitting in the door of his tent during the heat of the day, he beheld three men standing near. They were messengers sent to Abraham, and bore tidings to make glad his heart. He went out before them and bowed himself to the earth, for thus were strangers welcomed in those days. And he said: "My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree; and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that you shall pass on; for therefore are you come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. And Abra- ham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hastened to dress it. And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife ? And he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son." Thus in this special manner was again announced, God's purpose towards Abraham. The picture which represents the scene here described is quite simple in detail, reflecting, therefore, the spirit of the narrative. The figures of the three spiritual visitants are impressive and beautiful, and their features bear the impress of serenity and peace. 77 Կասելիկա 2 THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM. See Genesis xviii, xix. rose up HE three strangers entertained by Abraham, when they had finished their repast, from thence and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to bring them on their way." He was then informed of God's purpose to utterly destroy the cities of the plain, because of their great wickedness. Abraham interceded, saying, "Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?" Then the promise was made to him that if fifty righteous people were found in the city it should be spared for their sakes. But still Abraham pleaded, and God said he would spare it if there were five less than fifty, and finally promised that for forty's sake, for thirty's, for twenty's-even for ten's sake-he would withhold destruction. T In the evening two angels came to Sodom and found Lot sitting at the gateway. They were invited to accompany him home, and partake of refreshment, and tarry for the night. The purpose of their visit was to warn Lot of the impending destruction of the city, and they urged him to gather together as speedily as possible his family, and to warn such as were not under his roof to flee also. But his sons in-law were unmindful of the warning, and early in the morning Lot, his wife, and their two daughters departed, urged on by the messenger who charged them, "Escape for thy life, look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain ; escape to the mountain, less thou be consumed. 66 'And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord. Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die. Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh, let me escape thither (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither, for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." 66 W The scene is here represented quite literally, and is invested with almost terrific grandeur. The whole horizon is ablaze; the walls of the doomed city appear fairly torn asunder by the furious sweep of the flames, while the stifling smoke rolls upward in tumultuous volumes, filling all the upper sky with blackness, and spreading gloom over the earth. Through this gathering darkness Lot and his daughters hasten, urged on by terror, and mindful of the injunction not to look backward. The artist has given Lot a most anxious and appealing look, and has quite successfully indicated the hapless fate of his wife, who stands high above the fire-swept plain, her drapery clinging in hard folds to her motionless limbs-a rigid, un- breathing and almost transshaped figure. > 8 > ******* C. Bors *· ` . · · · MICHIMLA 23687 APISAN 8 THE EXPULSION OF HAGAR. See Genesis xxi. πH HE incident of which the engraving before us is the illustration-the dismissal of Hagar and Ishmael from the tent of Abraham-is thus described in the twenty-first chapter of Genesis : : "Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. "And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bond woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar (putting it on her shoulder), and the child, and sent her away and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba." The story of Hagar and Ishmael appears always to have been a favorite subject for picto- rial treatment, and the pencil of the artist has helped much to make the chief incidents relat- ing to them familiar. M. Doré has again told the story in his own original and effective way, his portrayal of their expulsion being artistic in conception and execution, tender in sentiment and faithful to the spirit of the East. w 1 9 Stone Quaillig 1 HAGAR IN THE WILDERNESS. - See Genesis xxi. TH HIS thrilling scene is intended to illustrate the following verses: "And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went and sat her down over against him, a good way off, as it were a bow shot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice and wept." M. Doré has given the spirit of this incident without adhering strictly to the literal details. The lamentation of the stricken mother is pathetically portrayed; the empty water-flask-now cast aside as a useless thing-and the outstretched figure of the dying child are also, in themselves, eloquent commentaries on the utter extremity of the destitute Hagar, ere yet God had opened her eyes to see the vivifying well of water, wherewith to fill her bottle and restore the lad. t 10 ALOGUE DIANA MA Hinduteh ANGE 10 TRIAL OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM. See Genesis xxii. π HIS engraving represents one of the most striking examples of faith recorded in sacred history. Isaac was the only son of Abraham and Sarah-the child of their old age. Around him clustered all the sweetest incidents of home; with him was associated the prophecy of future greatness for their descendants; for the promise had been made to Abraham that through Isaac he should become the father of many nations. But when the command came to Abraham to take this beloved son and offer him up as a burnt offering unto the Lord, great as was the sacrifice, he bowed in meek submission; unaccountable as must have seemed such a command, his faith in the promises of God was still, unshaken. We see the aged patriarch toiling up the mountain, and before him Isaac, bearing the wood for the altar, the boy obedient unto his father, the father obedient unto God. In these verses from the Bible is the story related: "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the Mountains which I will tell thee of. "And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide you here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built an Altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the Altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a Ram, caught in a thicket by his horns, and Abraham went and took the Ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering, in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh, as it is said to this day, In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen. → "And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying, I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea And in thy seed shall all the shore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice." 11 FOTO