o Painting--
_Sculpturing_ (_Page 667-694_)--Sculpture in Greece and Egypt--
Sculptures of Ancient Kings--Animal Sculpture--Modeling of the
Human Figure--"The Sculptor of the Gods"--Grandeur of Style--
Statues--Description of Statues--Work of Lysippus--The
Macedonian Age--Roman Art--Copies of Ancient Gods--_Mosaic_
(_Page 695-702_)--Mosaic Subjects--Battle Represented in
Mosaics--Grandeur of Style 643-702
LITERATURE.
Homer--Paris--Achilles--The Vengeance of Odysseus--Sophocles--
Herodotus--The Crocodile--Artabanus Dissuades Xerxes--Socrates--
Socrates and Aristodemus--Aristophanes--Plato--The Perfect
Beauty--Last Hours of Socrates--Demosthenes--Philip and the
Athenians--Measures to Resist Philip--Former Athenians
Described--Oration on the Crown--Invective against Catiline--
Expulsion of Catiline from Rome--The Tyrant Praetor Denounced--
Immortality of the Soul--Julius Caesar--The Germans--Battle of
Pharsalia--Virgil--Employment of the Bee--Punishments in Hell--
Horace--To Licinius--Happiness Founded on Wisdom--The Equality
of Man--Plutarch--Proscription of Sylla--Demosthenes and Cicero
Compared 703-832
TOMBS AND CATACOMBS.
Extent of the Tombs--An Acre and a quarter in a Tomb--
Sculpturings--Painting--Burying According to Rank--Mummies--Mummy
Cases and Sarcophagi--Roman Tombs--Inscriptions--_The Catacombs_
(_Page 873-910_)--Inscriptions--Catacombs--Christian
Inscriptions--Early Inscriptions--Catacombs, nearly 900 miles
long--Utensils from the Catacombs--Paintings--S. Calixtus--
Lord's Supper 833-910
TRUTH OF THE BIBLE.
The Assyrian and Babylonian Discoveries--1100 Christian
Inscriptions--The use of the Bible for Excavators--Accordance
with Ancient Writings--Frieze from the Arch of Titus--No Book
produced by Chance--God the Author--Its Great Antiquity--The
Pentateuch--Preservation of the Scripture--Its Important
Discoveries--Its Peculiar Style--Its Harmony--Its Impartiality--
Its Prophecies--Its Important Doctrines--Its Holy Tendency--Its
Aims--Its Effects--Its General Reception--Persecuted but not
Persecuting 911-944
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ILLUSTRATIONS
BY GERMAN ARTISTS.
DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII
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