VERONA--By Charles Dickens 52

PADUA--By Theophile Gautier 55

FERRARA--By Theophile Gautier 59

LAKE LUGANO--By Victor Tissot 62

LAKE COMO--By Percy Bysshe Shelley 64

BELLAGIO ON LAKE COMO--By W. D. M'Crackan 66

THE REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO--By Joseph Addison 69

PERUGIA--By Nathaniel Hawthorne 73

SIENA---By Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Blashfield 75

THE ASSISSI OF ST. FRANCIS--By Hippolyte Adolphe Taine 78

RAVENNA--By Edward A. Freeman 80

BENEDICTINE SUBIACO--By Augustus J. C. Hare 83

ETRUSCAN VOLTERRA--By William Cullen Bryant 86

THE PAESTUM OF THE GREEKS--By Edward A. Freeman 88

VII. SICILIAN SCENES

PALERMO--By Will S. Monroe 91

GIRGENTI--By Edward A. Freeman 93

SEGESTE--By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 97

TAORMINA--By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 99

MOUNT AETNA--By Will S. Monroe 101

SYRACUSE--By Rufus B. Richardson 104

MALTA--By Theophile Gautier 107

VIII. THE MAINLAND OF GREECE

ARRIVING IN ATHENS--THE ACROPOLIS--By J. P. Mahaffy 112

A WINTER IN ATHENS HALF A CENTURY AGO--By Bayard Taylor 119

THE ACROPOLIS AS IT WAS--By Pausanias 122

THE ELGIN MARBLES--By J. P. Mahaffy 127

THE THEATER OF DIONYSUS--By J. P. Mahaffy 130

WHERE ST. PAUL PREACHED--By J. P. Mahaffy 134

FROM ATHENS TO DELPHI ON HORSEBACK--By Bayard Taylor 136

CORINTH--By J. P. Mahaffy 140

OLYMPIA--By Philip S. Marden 143

THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA AS IT WAS--By Pausanias 146

THERMOPYLAE--By Rufus B. Richardson 152