[Illustration: HALL OF JUSTICE.--MOOR’S HEAD. (_From a tracing by M. Jules Goury, a celebrated French architect, from the painting representing a Moorish Tribunal._)] chase, and the ladies are attended by lap-dogs. The huntsmen are on horseback and on foot. When the wild boar is slain, he is hoisted on the back of a mule by attendants, and borne triumphantly home. A great variety of birds and trees--amid the branches of which monkeys partially conceal themselves--make up the various scenes. In spite of the want of perspective, there is much spirit in the details, and the female figures especially are most graceful. That these unique relics should be taken from their present [Illustration: FAÇADE, COURT OF THE MOSQUE, BUILT BY YÚSUF I.] [Illustration: “WA LA GHÁLIB ILA ALÁ!”--THERE IS NO CONQUEROR BUT GOD!--THE FAMOUS MOTTO OF MOHAMMED I. AND HIS SUCCESSORS. AN EXAMPLE FROM THE HALL OF AMBASSADORS.] [Illustration: ELEVATION OF THE ANCIENT GATE OF JUSTICE.] [Illustration: 1. SECTION OF THE HALL OF JUSTICE (_looking East_).] [Illustration: 2. SECTION OF THE HALL OF JUSTICE (_looking towards the Court of the Lions_).] [Illustration: PAINTING ON THE CEILING OF THE HALL OF JUSTICE. No 1.] [Illustration: PAINTING ON THE CEILING OF THE HALL OF JUSTICE.] [Illustration: PART OF PICTURE IN THE HALL OF JUSTICE.--THE MOOR’S RETURN FROM HUNTING.] [Illustration: HALL OF JUSTICE--THE DEATH OF THE LION AT THE HANDS OF A CHRISTIAN KNIGHT.] [Illustration: PART OF PICTURE IN HALL OF JUSTICE.--MOORISH HUNTSMAN SLAYING THE WILD BOAR.] position and preserved under glass, is a consummation devoutly to be wished. LAS DOS HERMANAS--THE TWO SISTERS. Perhaps the most interesting, as it certainly is the loveliest apartment in this palace of enchantment, is the HALL OF THE TWO SISTERS, a title, the guide books would fain have us believe, [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO HALL OF THE TWO SISTERS, FROM THE COURT OF THE LIONS.] conferred by reason of two enormous slabs of white marble laid in the pavement, precisely alike in form, and without flaw or stain; but the surpassing splendour of this chamber forbids us to accept a reason so inadequate for the designation. There is nothing so very extraordinary in two huge blocks of stone, be they never so faultless; that is only a matter of quarrying: if such objects are to excite wonder, we may turn, with more profit, to the Pyramids of Egypt. Let us rather concern ourselves with the beauty and symmetry of this unequalled spot. First, then, the gate of the tower exceeds all other gates in [Illustration: HALL OF THE TWO SISTERS, FROM ENTRANCE DOOR.]