ITALY OF TO-DAY
"No sudden goddess through the rushes glides,
No eager God among the laurels hides;
Jove's eagle mopes beside an empty throne,
Persephone and Ades sit alone
By Lethe's hollow shore."
—Nora Hopper
Sonnet.—On Approaching Italy.
The Poems of Oscar Wilde. Vol. i, p. 59.
Naples.
Lectures. John L. Stoddard. Naples. Vol. viii, p. 115.
Peeps at Many Lands. Italy. John Finnemore. Chap. xiii.
Certain Things in Naples.
Italian Journeys. W. D. Howells. P. 80.