Voltaire, by Houdon--_Frontispiece._ Voltaire, at seventy Ancient Writing implements, from Pompeii Voltaire in early manhood The White Bull Apis Silence Amasidia The Witch of Endor The Serpent Nebuchadnezzar Lot and his Family Daniel, Ezekiel & Jeremiah Egyptian Priests Winged Bull The Scape Goat Caravan approaching Babylon The Cup Egyptian Archer The Funeral Pyre Oannes--The Fish God Almona Zadig and the Brigand The Basilisk Zadig and the Queen Cador concealing Astarte The Combats The Hermit Freind and his wayward Son Don Jeronimo Bueno Caracurador Condemned by the Inquisition Epictetus the Slave Grand Entrance to Palace The Phœnix The King of Scythia rescued from the Lion The Shrine at Bassora Consulting the Oracle Religious Wars in Albion The Old Man of the Seven Mountains Kissing an Old Man's Toe Gaiety and Frivolity Preservers of Ancient Customs Dancing a _Tambourin_ Clio, the Muse of History The Tax Collector Barefooted Carmelites Entering the Convent The Rack The Priory Entrance The Huron Identified Baptism of Hercules The Separation The Confessional Father Tout-à-tous The Meeting Death of Miss St. Yves A Medieval Exploring Vessel Micromegas captures a Ship The Blank Book The Spiritual Rulers of Persepolis Burying the Dead in Churches Good and Evil Genii Young Memnon Memnon and the Distressed Ninevite Des Touches and Croutef Boodh supported by Serpents The Fakir The Sphinx The Study of Nature The Poor Clergyman Kwan-yin, Burmese, Buddha, and Chinese Ivory Figure The Birth of Minerva and Eve--Androgynous Deities Bacchus and Ariadne Envy Plato Visiting Seignor Pococurante The "Yawning Oysters" The School at Issoire Jeannot and Colin Religious Emblems Brama, Vishna, and Siva The happy Bigot The two Comforters The Winged Dragon [Illustration: The White Bull. A Satyrical Romance.--"Daniel changed a monarch into this bull, and I have changed this bull into a god!"] TAURUS. The object and significance of ancient Tauric and Phallic worship have been clearly set forth by Dupuis, Payne Knight, and other learned authors, and we have, even at the present day, a survival of the ancient faith, in the Mayday festivals of India and Britain, which were originally instituted to celebrate the entrance of the sun into the zodiacal sign Taurus, at the vernal equinox, when the god Osiris was worshiped in Egypt under the form of a bull called Apis.