[17-1] Almost all the English translations of the extracts from Greek and Latin poetical writings quoted in this essay are from the renderings of Pope and Dryden. Space will not allow to give here more than a few quotations from the originals. [17-2] Ὦ πάτερ, ἦ μέγα θαῦμα τόδ' ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ὁρῶμαι. ἔμπης μοι τοῖχοι μεγάρων καλαί τε μεσόδμαι εἰλάτιναί τε δοκοὶ καὶ κίονες ὑψόσ' ἔχοντες φαίνοντ' ὀφθαλμοῖς ὡς εἰ πυρὸς αἰθομένοιο. ἦ μάλα τις θεὸς ἔνδον, οἳ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχουσιν. [18-1] Inde ubi prima quies medio iam noctis abactae Curriculo expulerat somnum; cum femina primum Cui tolerare colo vitam tenuique Minerva, Impositum cinerem et sopitos suscitat ignes, Noctem addens operi, famulasque ad lumina longo Exercet penso. [23-1] Ac veluti magno in populo quum saepe coorta est Seditio, saevitque animis ignobile vulgus; Iamque faces et saxa volant; furor arma ministrat; Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent arrectisque auribus adstant; Ille regit dictis animos et pectora mulcet. [23-2] An interesting article on the same theme written by Mr. C. G. Montefiore appeared in the _Jewish Quarterly Review_, vol. III, No. 12. III ART AMONG THE ANCIENT HEBREWS The ancient Hebrews were an art-loving people, and occupied a fair position among those Eastern nations of antiquity, who attained some success in the production of works of artistic merit. Their success in Music and Poetry was undoubted, and becomes even more striking when it is remembered that it had been won by the Jewish nation at a time when in Greece, for instance, the cultivation of these arts was still in its infancy. The period of their artistic activity extended from the days of Moses to the time of the destruction of the last Temple in Jerusalem by Titus (70 A. D.). It is proposed in the present essay to deal, first with the _Architecture_, then with the _Music_, and finally with the _Poetry_ of the ancient Hebrews.