Extracts from Note-Book- Mahomet's Paradise - Beautiful Da- Cholera Hot Tomb of Nimrod- -The Stateliest Ruin of All- Dan — Bashan — Gennesaret — Scraps of History — Character of Jack's Adventure - The Story of Joseph-The Sacred Lake of Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture — Public Reception of The Ancient Baths -The Last Battle of the Crusades Jehu's Achievements — Samaria and its Famous Siege Shechem-The Tomb of Joseph-Jacob's Well - Shiloh - Ja- Description of Jerusalem - Church of the Holy Sepulchre - The - Grave of Jesus Monkish Impostures-Grave of Adam- - Solomon's Temple - Mosque of Omar Bethany-"Bedouins!"- Ancient Jericho - The Dead Sea- The Holy Hermits -Gazelles Birthplace of the Saviour, Departure from Jerusalem-Samson-The Plain of Sharon "Home" in a Pleasure-ship — Jack in Costume - His Father's "Recherché" Donkeys - Egyptian Modesty - Moses in the Bul- Homeward Bound - A Demoralized Note-book- -Old Spain- FRO CHAPTER I. FROM the sanguinary sports of the Holy Inquisition; the slaughter of the Coliseum; and the dismal tombs of the Catacombs, I naturally pass to the picturesque horrors of the Capuchin Convent. We stopped a moment in a small chapel in the church to admire a picture of St. Michael vanquishing Satan a picture which is so beautiful that I cannot but think it belongs to the reviled "Renaissance," notwithstanding I believe they told us one of the ancient old masters painted it—and then we descended into the vast vault underneath. Here was a spectacle for sensitive nerves! Evidently the old masters had been at work in this place. There were six divisions in the apartment, and each division was ornamented with a style of decoration peculiar to itself— and these decorations were in every instance formed of human bones! There were shapely arches, built wholly of thigh bones; there were startling pyramids, built wholly of grinning skulls; there were quaint architectural structures of various kinds, built of shin bones and the bones of the arm; on the wall were elaborate frescoes, whose |