Genesis XXI.

This thrilling scene is intended to illustrate the following verses: "And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went and sat her down over against him, a good way off as it were a bow shot for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him and lifted up her voice and wept." M. Dore has given the spirit of this incident without adhering strictly to the literal details. The lamentation of the stricken mother is pathetically portrayed; the empty water-flask-now cast aside as a useless thing-and the out-stretched figure of the dying child are also, in themselves, eloquent commentaries on the utter extremity of the destitute Hagar, yet God had opened her eyes to see the vivifying well of water, wherewith to fill her bottle and restore the lad.