ROME. As Described by Great Writers. Edited by Esther Singleton. With numerous illustrations. New York. Dodd, Mead and Company. 1907

ROME. As Described by Great Writers.
Edited by Esther Singleton. With numerous illustrations. New York. Dodd, Mead and Company. 1907.

CONTENTS

ROME - Maurice Maeterlinck (1)

ANCIENT ROME - Isaac Taylor (12)

ROME AS IT IS TO-DAY - George Pignatorre (29)

THE RISE OF MODERN ROME - Dr. Reinhold Schoener (39)

ROMAN LIFE AND CHARACTER - F. Marion Crawford (51)

SOCIAL LIFE - E. Alexander Powell, F.R.G.S. (63)

FIRST VIEW OF ROME - Charles Dickens (68)

IN MAREMMA - Ouida (74)

THE APPIAN WAY AND TOMB OF CAECILIA METELLA - Hugh Macmillan (79)

THE TIBER - William Davies (99)

THE VATICAN AND ITS GARDEN - Augustus J. C. Hare (113)

THE VATICAN - Emile Zola (121)

HOLY WEEK - Charles Dickens (129)

ST. PETER'S - Dr. Reinhold Schoener (146)

ST. JOHN LATERAN - Francis Wey (150)

CHURCHES AND DUNGEONS - Charles Dickens (158)

CHURCHES - Nathaniel Hawthorne (169)

THE CORSO - Dr. Reinhold Schoener (178)

THE CARNIVAL - Charles Dickens (190)

THE ROMAN FORUM - Hugh Macmillan (202)

THE MAMERTINE PRISON - Nathaniel Hawthorne (225)

THE CAPITOLINE - Augustus J. C. Hare (229)

THE COLOSSEUM - Edward Gibbon (238)

THE PANTHEON - Linda Villari (245)

THE PALATINE - Emile Zola (253)

THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO - Augustus J. C. Hare (259)

THE TRASTEVERE - Dr. Reinhold Schoener (267)

THE RAG FAIR OF ROME - G. G. Chatterton (275)

EXCURSIONS - Charles Dickens (284)

TIVOLI - Francis Wey (289)

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE - Nathaniel Hawthorne (294)

THE PIAZZA DI SPAGNA - THE PIAZZA DEL POPOLO - THE PINCIAN HILL - PORTO DEL POPOLO - VILLA BORGHESE - Hugh Macmillan (317)

MODERN ROME - Isaac Taylor (322)

ROME REVISITED - Frederic Harrison (332)

ILLUSTRATIONS

View of Rome from St. Peter's (frontispiece). Trajan's Column (12). Baths of Caracalla (22). Via Nazionale (30). Palazzo Doria (40). Fountain of Trevi (44). Piazza Navona (52). Pincian Gardens (64). St. Peter's (interior) (68). Campagna (74). The Appian Way (80). Tomb of Cecelia Metella (94). The Tiber (100). The Vatican (114). Scala Santa (130). St. Peter's (146). St. John Lateran (150). St. Mari in Ara Coeli (158). St. Maria Maggiore (170). St. Maria degli Angeli (174). Piazza Colonna with Marcus Aurelius Column (178). The Corso (190). Arch of Septimius Severus (202). Temple of Castor and Pollux (218). Piazza del Campidoglio with Capitoline Museum on the left (230). The Colosseum (238). The Pantheon (246). Ruins on the Palatine (254). Castle of St. Angelo (260). Villa d'Este, Tivoli (264). View of St. Peter's from the Tiber (268). Tivoli (290). Vatican Gallery (294). Piazza di Spagna (306). Piazza del Popolo (310). Scala di Spagna (318). Quirinal Palace (322). St. Pauls Without the Walls (exterior) (326). St. Paul Without the Walls (interior) (330). Piazza del Popolo (334). Temple of Vesta (340).