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: