confined
largely to Sparta, but it spread to many Greek colonies in the central
Mediterranean and in the Levant. It became a powerful influence, alike
in art, in domestic life, and in political supremacy. One of its noblest
achievements was its help in keeping out the Persian, and another in
supplanting in the Mediterranean the commercial rule of Phoenicians.
Attica and Sparta became world-famous cities, with stupendous
achievements in every domain of human art and human efficiency. The
colossal debt all Europe and all America owe them, is known to everyone
who has ever been to school.

F. W. H.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII

Italy, Sicily, and Greece--Part One

INTRODUCTION TO VOLS. VII AND VIII--By the Editor.

I--ROME
PAGE
FIRST DAYS IN THE ETERNAL CITY--By Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe 1

THE ANTIQUITIES--By Joseph Addison 10

THE PALACE OF THE CAESARS--By Rodolfo
Lanciani 17

THE COLISEUM--By George S. Hillard 24

THE PANTHEON--By George S. Hillard 29

HADRIAN'S TOMB--By Rodolfo Lanciani 32

TRAJAN'S FORUM--By Francis Wey 35

THE BATHS OF CARACALLA--By Hippolyte
Adolphe Taine 37

THE AQUEDUCT BUILDERS--By Rodolfo Lanciani 41

THE QUARRIES AND BRICKS OF THE ANCIENT
CITY--By Rodolfo Lanciani 45

PALM SUNDAY IN ST. PETER--By Grace
Greenwood (Mrs. Lippincott) 53

THE ELECTION OF A POPE--By Cardinal Wiseman 55

AN AUDIENCE WITH PIUS X.--By Mary Emogene
Hazeltine 59

THE ASCENT OF THE DOME OF ST. PETER'S--By
George S. Hillard 64

SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE--By Hippolyte
Adolphe Taine 67

CATACOMBS AND CRYPTS--By Charles Dickens 69

THE CEMETERY OF THE CAPUCHINS--By Nathaniel
Hawthorne