ght's splendid address before the
2,000 students of Glasgow University on being made Lord Rector. It
fired my soul beyond all the ruins and all the arts in Rome or
Naples. It is grand indeed, and reminds one of our own Wendell
Phillips' address to the Harvard students two years ago.[14]

ROME, March 29.

_To Madam Susan B. Anthony, of New York, U. S. A._

MADAM: We had the honor to announce your coming to Rome some three
weeks ago in the Italian Times. While we ourselves have an
impressive appreciation of your distinguished mental acquirements,
yet we would wish to carry to our numerous English-speaking
subscribers on this continent some testimony of your presence in
our midst. Therefore we place our columns at your disposal, and
will esteem the privilege of presenting to the public any topic
your facile pen may write. To this end we will wait upon you or be
pleased to see you at our sanctum. With much respect, we are,
Madam, your obedient servants,

THE PROPRIETORS OF THE ITALIAN TIMES.

[Only English newspaper published in Italy.]

ROME, April 1.

DEAR BROTHER D. R.: We have climbed Vesuvius. One feels richly paid
when the puffing and exploding and ascending of the red-hot lava
meet the ears and eyes. The mountains, the Bay of Naples, the sail
to Capri and the Blue Grotto are fully equal to my expectations....
The squalid-looking people, however, and their hopeless fate make
one's stay at any of these Italian resorts most depressing. Troops
of beggars beset one all along the streets and roads, and with
tradesmen there is no honesty. For instance, a man charged some
twenty francs for a shell comb, then came down to seven, six, five,
and finally asked, "What will you give?" I, never dreaming he would
take it, said, "two francs," and he threw the comb into the
carriage.... Saturday we took the cars from Naples to Palermo.
Every mountainside having a few seven-by-nine patches of soil in a
place, is terraced and covered with grape vines and lemon trees,
the latter now yellow with fruit. On many I counted twenty and
thirty terraces, each with a solid stone wall to hold the earth in
place. It is wonderful what an amount