"No sudden G.o.ddess through the rushes glides, No eager G.o.d among the laurels hides; Jove's eagle mopes beside an empty throne, Persephone and Ades sit alone By Lethe's hollow sh.o.r.e."

--Nora Hopper

SONNET.--On Approaching Italy.

_The Poems of Oscar Wilde_. Vol. i, p. 59.

NAPLES.

_Lectures_. John L. Stoddard. Naples. Vol. viii, p. 115.

_Peeps at Many Lands_. Italy. John Finnemore. Chap. xiii.

CERTAIN THINGS IN NAPLES.

_Italian Journeys_. W.D. Howells. P. 80.

A SCHOOL IN NAPLES.

_Italian Journeys_. W.D. Howells. P. 139.

ITALIAN RECOLLECTIONS.

More Letters of a Diplomat's Wife. Mary King Waddington.

_Scribner's Magazine_. Vol. x.x.xvii, p. 204.

THE ITALIAN PEASANTRY.

_Roma Beata_. Maud Howe. P. 34.

_Peeps at Many Lands_. Italy. John Finnemore. Chap. xix.

A STROLL ON THE PINCIAN HILL.

_The Marble Faun_. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Chap. xii.

HOTELS IN ITALY.

_Roman Holidays and Others_. W.D. Howells. Chap. vi, p. 68.

A MODERN ITALIAN FARMYARD AS SEEN BY Sh.e.l.lEY.

_The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Sh.e.l.ley_. Harry Buxton Forman.

Vol. iv, p. 43.

SCHOOL LIFE IN ITALY.

Glimpses of School Life in Italy. Mary Sifton Pepper. _Chautauqua_.

Vol. x.x.xv, p. 550.

Education in Italy. Alex Oldrini. _Chautauqua_. Vol. xviii, p. 413.

A NIGHT IN ITALY.

_Exits and Entrances_. Charles Warren Stoddard. P. 41.

POEM.--In Italy.

_Poetical Works_. Bayard Taylor. P. 130.

LIFE IN MODERN ITALY.

In Italy. John H. Vincent. _Chautauqua_. Vol. xviii, p. 387.

Life in Modern Italy. Bella H. Stillman. _Chautauqua_. Vol. xi, p. 6.

O TEMPORA! O MORES!

"The seeds of G.o.dlike power are in us still; G.o.ds are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!"

--Matthew Arnold

POEM.--The Watch of the Old G.o.ds.

POVERTY AMONG THE ANCIENT ROMANS.

_Society in Rome under the Caesars_. William Ralph Inge. Chap. iii.

_The Private Life of the Romans_. H.W. Johnston. P. 305.

_The Ancient City_. Fustel De Coulanges. P. 449.

POVERTY AMONG THE AMERICANS.

The Problem of Poverty. Robert Hunter. _Outlook_. Vol. lxxix, p. 902.

The Weary World of Human Misery. _World's Work_. Vol. xvi, p. 10526.

_How the Other Half Lives_. Jacob Riis. Chap. xxii, p. 255.

THE CRAZE FOR AMUs.e.m.e.nT AMONG THE ANCIENT ROMANS.

_Society in Rome under the Caesars_. William Ralph Inge. Chap. ix.

_Readings in Ancient History_. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 194.

THE CRAZE FOR AMUs.e.m.e.nT AMONG THE AMERICANS.

What New York spends at the Theaters. _Literary Digest_. Vol. xlv, p. 19.

LUXURY AND EXTRAVAGANCE IN ANCIENT ROME.

_Rome: The Eternal City_. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, pp. 524, 529.

_Society in Rome under the Caesars_. William Ralph Inge. P. 262.

_Readings in Ancient History_. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 305.

LUXURY AND EXTRAVAGANCE AMONG AMERICANS.

Newport: The City of Luxury. Jonathan T. Lincoln. _Atlantic Monthly_. Vol. cii, p. 162.

Housekeeping on Half-a-million a Year. Emily Harington.

_Everybody's_. Vol. xiv, p. 497.

_The Pa.s.sing of the Idle Rich_. Frederick Townsend Martin. Chap.

ii, p. 23.

POEM.--_Tempora Mutantur_.

_Poetical Works_. John G. Saxe. P. 98.

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