LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| Perugia | [Frontispiece] |
| "I wish I could take them all," she said | [6] |
| Naples. A Street View | [84] |
| "With one girl clutching her dress, she could not move fast" | [132] |
| Pompeii | [144] |
| Near La Trinità, Rome | [170] |
| Rome. Group on Spanish Steps | [170] |
| Cascades at Tivoli | [188] |
| Wall of Orvieto | [188] |
| Spires of Florence | [262] |
| San Marco, Florence | [262] |
| Siena. General View with Campanile | [292] |
| Ravenna. Theodoric's Tomb | [292] |
| "As Irma approached, the girl looked up" | [296] |
| Venice. The Grand Canal | [308] |
| Venice. A Gondolier | [308] |
IRMA IN ITALY
CHAPTER I
THE START
"Of course it's great to go to Europe; any one would jump at the chance, but still——"
As the speaker, a bright-eyed girl of sixteen, paused, her companion, slightly younger, continued: