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LIPPINCOTT'S

MAGAZINE

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POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

JULY, 188o.

THE PALACE OF THE LEATHERSTONEPAUGI-IS.

RUINS OF THE PALACES OF THE CAZSARS.

VERY sentimental traveller to Rome must sometimes wonder if to come to the Eternal City is not, after all, more

of a loss than a gain: Rome unvisited holds such a solitary place in one's imag inings. H!‘ is then a place around which sweeps a different atmosphere from that of any other city under the sun. One sees it through poetic mists that veil every prosaic reality. It is arched by an hori zon against which the ﬁgures of its won

derful history are shadowed with scarcely less of grandeur and glory than those the old gods cast upon the Sacred Hill. One who has never seen Rome is thus led to imagine that those of his coun try-people who have lived here for years have become in a manner purged of all natural commonplaceness. One thinks of them as reﬁned—sublimated, so to

speak—into beings worthy of reverence and to be spoken of with awed admira

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by J. B. Lrr-mrecorr & Co., in the Ofﬁce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. VOL. XXVl.—r Q 9