What a horde of types, some of them bizarre, others simply comic! There are, taking them as they come, a _Turkish Butcher in Jerusalem_ (1863), _The Alma_ (Professional Singing Girl--1864), _The Slaves in the Market Place_, _The Clothing Merchant at Cairo_, _The Albanians Playing Chess_ (1867), The _Itinerant Merchant at Cairo_ (1869). Then there is the _Promenade of the Harem_, and still others, the _Santon_ (Turkish Monk) _at the Door of the Mosque_ and _Women at the Bath_ (1876), the _Arab and his Courser_ and _The Return from the Hunt_ (1878). [Illustration: PLATE VII.--THE VENDOR OF RUGS PIERRE LAFITTE & CIE, PARIS (In a Private Collection, United States) From his numerous journeys to the East, Gérôme brought back many curious memoranda of picturesque scenes, which he subsequently converted into brilliant canvases. He excelled in reproducing the caressing beauty of shimmering carpets and the rippling sheen of silken textures.] In the company of this experienced and reliable guide, we wander from _Jerusalem_ (1868) to the _Great Bath at Broussa_ (1885), from a _Corner of Cairo_ to _Medinet_ and _Fayoum_. Here we have the severed heads in the _Mosque of El Hecanin_, the nude woman in the _Moorish Bath_, all the barbarity and all the grace of the Orient,--and invariably the anecdote, whether agreeable or sinister, blends with the matchless splendour of the landscape. To this list must be added _Recreation in Camp, a Souvenir of Moldavia_ (Salon of 1854), in which a soldier is dancing before his assembled comrades, to the sound of drums, fifes, and violins. A sentinel keeps watch. It is a picture taken in the act, and intensely real. It is easy to detect the historian, or, to adopt the expression of M. Jules Claretie, the "Memoir Maker," possessed of the true gift, agreeable and individual, lurking behind every one of the works of this authoritative orientalist. He dedicated himself quite naturally and with great success to the interpretation of history and of the historic and literary anecdote.