CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII

Italy, Sicily, and Greece—Part One

[Introduction To Vols. VII and VIII—By the Editor.]
I—ROME
Page
First Days in the Eternal City—By Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe[1]
The Antiquities—By Joseph Addison[10]
The Palace of the Cæsars—By Rodolfo
Lanciani[17]
The Coliseum—By George S. Hillard[24]
The Pantheon—By George S. Hillard[29]
Hadrian's Tomb—By Rodolfo Lanciani[32]
Trajan's Forum—By Francis Wey[35]
The Baths of Caracalla—By Hippolyte
Adolphe Taine[37]
The Aqueduct Builders—By Rodolfo Lanciani[41]
The Quarries and Bricks of the Ancient
City—By Rodolfo Lanciani[45]
Palm Sunday in St. Peter—By Grace
Greenwood (Mrs. Lippincott)[53]
The Election of a Pope—By Cardinal Wiseman[55]
An Audience With Pius X.—By Mary Emogene
Hazeltine[59]
The Ascent of the Dome of St. Peter's—By
George S. Hillard[64]
Santa Maria Maggiore—By Hippolyte
Adolphe Taine[67]
Catacombs and Crypts—By Charles Dickens[69]
The Cemetery Of the Capuchins—By Nathaniel
Hawthorne[73]
The Burial Place of Keats and Shelley—By
Nathaniel Parker Willis[75]
Excursions Near Rome—By Charles Dickens[78]
II—FLORENCE
The Approach by Carriage Road—By Nathaniel
Hawthorne[83]
The Old Palace and the Loggia—By Theophile
Gautier[86]
The Origins of the City—By Grant Allen[92]
The Cathedral—By Hippolyte Adolphe
Taine[96]
The Ascent of the Dome of Brunelleschi—By
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Blashfield[102]
Arnolfo, Giotto and Brunelleschi—By
Mrs. Oliphant[106]
Ghiberti's Gates—By Charles Yriarte[116]
The Ponte Vecchio--By Charles Yriarte[119]
Santa Croce—By Charles Yriarte[121]
The Uffizi Gallery—By Hippolyte Adolphe
Taine[125]
Florence Eighty Years Ago—By William
Cullen Bryant[131]
III—VENICE
The Approach From the Sea—By Charles
Yriarte[138]
The Approach by Train—By the Editor[140]
A Tour of the Grand Canal—By Theophile
Gautier[143]
St. Mark's Church—By John Ruskin[148]
How the Old Campanile Was Built—By
Horatio F. Brown[155]
How the Campanile Fell—By Horatio F.
Brown[161]
The Palace of the Doges—By John Ruskin[163]
The Lagoons—By Horatio F. Brown[174]
The Decline Amid Splendor--By Hippolyte
Adolphe Taine[177]
The Doves of St. Mark's—By Horatio F.
Brown[183]
Torcello, the Mother City—By John Ruskin[186]
Cadore, Titian's Birthplace—By Amelia B.
Edwards[189]


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME VII
FRONTISPIECE
[The Coliseum and the Arch of Titus]
PRECEDING PAGE [1]
[The Pantheon, Rome]
[Rome: the Tiber, Castle of St. Angelo, And Dome of St. Peter's]
[Rome: Ruins of the Palace of The Cæsars]
[Rome: the San Sebastian Gate]
[The Tomb of Metella on the Appian Way]
[The Tarpeian Rock in Rome]
[Interior of the Coliseum]
[The Coliseum, Rome]
[St. Peter's, Rome]
[Rome: Interior of St. Peter's]
[Rome: Interior of Santa Maria Maggiore]
[The Cathedral, Florence]
FOLLOWING PAGE [96]
[Florence: Bridge Across the Arno]
[Florence: the Old Palace]
[Florence: the Loggia Di Lanzi]
[Florence: Cloister of Santa Maria Novella]
[Florence: Cloister of San Marco]
[Florence: the Pitti Palace]
[Florence: House of Dante]
[Front of St. Mark's, Venice]
[Interior of St. Mark's, Venice]
[The Ducal Palace, Venice]
[Venice: Piazza of St. Mark's, Ducal Palace on the Left]
[View of Venice From the Campanile]