| [Introduction To Vols. VII and VIII—By the Editor.] |
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| I—ROME |
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| 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] |
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| II—FLORENCE |
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| 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] |
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| III—VENICE |
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| 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] |