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BUILDING OF BRITAIN. PICTURES OF THE PAST.

ST. STEPHEN'S HALL PLAN.

Details of the scheme further to beautify St. Stephen's Hall, have been announced by the Secretary of the Office of Works It is proposed to place in the hall a series

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A RECOLLECTION OF MOSUL.

(DY PHILIP GERARDE. I We crossed the Tigris at dusk, Behind vinesch were already shrouded in the as the ruins of the long-dead city of

mist that crept in from the river, In front, looming up from behind the dark

of eight-paintings which will have for palms on the half-submerged island that theme the Building of Britain. The plot the Assyrians and the Bridge of Boats, marks the junction of the old stone bridge tures will be placed below the windows, where Sir Charles Barry, when he designy the city of Mosul, a shadowy smudge

against the primrose sky. ed the new hall, intended that paintinga should be set to complete bis design, and

the work will be co-ordinated and carried

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Somewhere on the further bank the first

hyena gave tongue to a long-drawn cry. A hundred jackals, far out across the out in consultation with Sir D. desert, lifted their heads and answered, Cameron, RA,

their wail drowning the veice of the Muezzin who called from the minaret, bidding the Faithful to pray.

The following is the list of the actual historical subjects, with the names of the painters to whom they have been entrust ed. A short descriptive note is to be written by Sir Henry Newbolt telling the story of the pictures, and it is hoped that this will be ready for publication before they are placed in position. King Alfred's Flect defeating the Danes in a storm of Swanage, A.D. 87.

(COLIN GILL) Richard Cour de Lion sails for the

Crusade, Dec.. 11th, 1189

(GLYN PHILPOT, E.A.)

The Barons and King John ratifying the Magna Carta at Runnymede, 1915. (CHARLES SIMs, R.A.) The Wycliffe Bible read in secret

meeting, 1400-1430

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The yellow flush that tipped the cupola above the Great Mosque turned first to grey and then to purple.

SALUTATION.

A bedouin, astride a lean donkey, his long legs almost touching the ground, his wives following behind, hearing bundles on their heads, saluted us,

"Peace be upon you!" said he.

And upon the sayer" we answered, and rode on into the black shadow that was the Great Bridge Gate, the single entrance on the eastern side of the walled city of Mosul.

"

As we clattered through the archway and out into the dusk-filled courtyard a bell tolled faintly: two women, with bent beads, hurried to vespers,

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MARKET OF THE DESERT.

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This contempt for the Christian cle- ment is sa pronounced that there is an instance at one of the city's most pro- minent and influential citizens a rich and powerful man and a direct descend-

order to have his heard trimmed." He ant of the ancient rulers of Assyria- who went one day to a local barber in

entered the shop early in the morning, heard was shorn. The barber refused but it was almost nightfall before his to attend to n Christian while any of the

which the poor man sustained on seeing Faithful remained unshaven.

his own camel-hey take preference over himself caused him to renounce the Christian faith next day,

It is recorded that the loss of dignity

THE LOCAL LEGEND OF JONAH,

In the height of Assyrian glory, Mosul was a suburb of Nineveh, the ruined city across the river, and since it was at Nineveh that Jonah, fleeing from his enemies, found sanctuary and eventually died, and was buried with honour, one would naturally suppose that the citizens of Mosul should know something of the legend of Jonah and the whale.

The explanation of the story offered by the good folk of Mosul is simple..

Cities all over the world, and in the Fast particularly, derive their names tron some peculiarity associated with their ancient life. Sometimes it Was their title, but more often commerce or some special trade left its name upon the city. Damascus, is so-called because at its auciens manufacture of Damask cloth. Aleppo is famous for ita milk (Arabie Haleb."). Mosul derives ita name from the manufacture of muslin..

Nineveh, or Nima, to give it its proper title, was the barter place of the sh numbers in the Tigris and sold in the: (Semitic "Nunu), caught in large i

markets of the city

THE DIG FISH."

The marine mammal inside which

(GEORGE CLAUSEN, RA.) The Speaker (Sir Thomas More) refusing to grant Cardinal Wol- sey a Royal subsidy without

The four great highways from Damascus debate, 1523......... VIVIAN FORBES)and Teheran, Ritlis and Baghdad all con- Queen Elizabeth commissioning Sir verge on Mosul, for the city is, as of Jonah is supposed to have spent three Walter Raleigh to "discover pid, the Market of the Desert, and all day days is not specified as being whale, unknown countries,' 1584

long the ten different gateways in the nor is it given any particular name. The (A. K. LAWRENCH)mestone wall are busy with the coming legend says that Jonah was swallowed Sir Thomas Roc at Ajmir before and going of the caravans and long camel up by the Big Fish." It was the city of Jehangir, the Mogul Emperor, trains that wend their leisurely way Nineveh-big because of ita houses and as Envoy from James I. 1614

across the steppe-laids of Arabia. gardens, which are", reputed to have (Proi. WILLIAM. ROTHENSTEIN }

covered" over 60 miles that swallowed. Queen Anne giving Royal Asacnt to

Jonah, according to Mosul. The three days is the period that it took the Act of Union with Scotland. 1507 (W. J. MONNINGTON) intense local national spirit which-centre of the city, where swallowed up has a comradeship of commerce and an him trayel from the outskirts to the SHRINE OF HISTORY.

fostered by the belief that religion is a

.

For Mosul, with its mixed population of Mohammedans, Christians, and Jews

up

secondary consideration where citizen- the crowded markets, he found refuge ship is concerned--is all to the benefit of from his foes. trade.

The following explanatory note our the scheme was issued by the Office of Works: In the rebuilding of the Palace of West- minster, after the fire of 1834, the site of

The three creeds,, nevertheless, occupy the ancient St. Stephen's Chapel, which each a different quarter within the walls, had from the time of Edward VI. been meeting only in the markets to carry on the meeting place of the Commons House the life of the city, in peace and friend- of Parliament, was filed by new Chanliness. This ideal state of affairs, so rare ber named St. Stephen's Hall On the in Eastern cities, where facial feuds and floor of this Hail brass studs still mark religious hatred are almost always part the position of the table and of th of the national life, is partly due to the Speaker's Chair. Here took place the fact that while each sect obeys the teach- great struggles of our Parliamentary hising its its own particular doctrine, they tory-here Sir John Eliot, Pym, and all hold one religious belief, one common Hampden fought for Constitutional Gor- ernment; Burke pleaded for an under point of view, which serves to smooth

over 'sectarian difficulties. starding of the American Colonies; Pitt

The three creeds all reverence, and and Fox contended across the table on questions of war and peace; the long convenerate the two patron saints of the test of the Reform Bill was carried city, St. George and St. Jonah. through. The place is one of the most famous shrines of British history.

THE CHRISTIANS' POSITION.

The tomb of the latter, marked by an When Sir Charles Barry designed the new Hall it was part of his plan that the mense artificial mound on the left panels below the windows should be filled bank bank of the Tigris, is the object with paintings. The present scheme is an of minor pilgrimages, and though there attempt to complete that design, but the are many jealously guarded places of selection of the subjects for the panels Moslem worship in Mosul, including the has not been easy. Fer so historic Great Mosque (once a Christian church chamber it was felt that the only worthy dedicated to St. Paul, and now a "Fri- scheme of decoration would be one which day" mosque, inaccessible to all but the should fulfil certain conditions. First, the followers of the Prophet), there are two paintings must represent striking aspects special Mosques where bemages may be of the rational life; secondly, they must paid to the city's saints by Moslem, form a series and not, a mère collection Christian and Jew. These, the Mosque of isolated scenes, and thirdly, to ensure of Nebi Jiris (St. George) and Nebi unity and so heighten the impression con- Yunis (St, Jonah), dating from the ninth veyed, they must be the work either of a century, are open to all singlo artist or of a team working to- But, although the Christians are nor gether in the closest and most sympathe.mally free from open persecution, they tie fellowship. On the other hand,. cer- cannot take an active part in the social tain limitations were necessarily imposed. life of the city, for Christians in Mosul It was evidently impossible to represent have always been regarded as slaves by the whole varied and stirring history of a their Moslem brethren, and occupy only thousand years by eight pictures, nor the most 15wly and menial employments. would it have been desirable to revive the uncxtinguished embers of modern party conflicts or personal feelings. Moreover, any attempt at direct representation f would be an abandonment of the object principally in view, What was desired was not to produce a few literal illustra- tions to the vast volume of our annals, but to symbolise the inner menning of certain events, to show them as typical and fateful stages in our national growth, our evolution frem a tribal state to a world-wide Commonwealth.

The theme, then, must be the Building of Britain, and the scenes chosen, while reminding the spectator of actual periods and events, must in the same moment. transfigure them, revealing to the imagina tion the greatness of the powers by whose operations the sacred city of the future was slowly, and often unconsciously, set- ting up her bulwarks and her palace. The scenes eventually chosen are given above, and when the painters have spent upon them their enthusiasm and their genius. it is confidently hoped that they will not fail of their effect. At first entrance the Hall will prescut a harmony of colour and design; viewed more closely the panels will remind all who see them that the spirit which has moved our people to the making of the great Commonwealth as we know it to-day, has done its work by such impulses as that which built and maintained our naval defence, that which sent armies far overses in a chivalrous devption to the cause of Christianity, that which united barons and freemen in resist tance to misgovernment and injustice, that. which inspired men to claim liberty of conscience and to treasure the English Bible above life itself, that which gained and kept the power of the purse against autocracy, that which sent seamen and poeta in company to voyage and explore and colonize, that which sought friend. ship and trade among the fierce peoples of the East, and gave them in return the Pax Britannica, and, Instly, that which sought union at home, and so at last com pleted the structure of our Parlament and of our national life

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