BY
MRS. OLIPHANT
AUTHOR OF "THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE"
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY P. RIVIERE, A.R.W.S. AND JOSEPH PENNELL
New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND LONDON
1896
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1895,
By MACMILLAN AND CO.
Set up and electrotyped November, 1895. Reprinted January, 1896.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith.
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK
WITH THE DEAR NAMES OF THOSE OF MINE
WHO LIE UNDER THE WALLS OF ROME:
AND OF HIM, THE LAST OF ALL,
WHO WAS BORN IN THAT SAD CITY:
ALL NOW AWAITING ME, AS I TRUST,
WHERE GOD MAY PLEASE.
F. W. O.
M. W. O.
F. R. O.