The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-04-21
AMERICAN GIRLS IN ITALY.
Mosaic Pictures --Mo7alizing in the Forum
BONE is too Sufficient Better Pleased with
aarseilles A Visit TO Avignon.

Mosaic Pictures TaliZing IN the Forum
Rome is too Sufficient Better Pleased with
Aarseilles "A Visit TO Avignon
ScEclAL Correspondence New NORTH west.
| ROME, December =, 1875.
resume the thread of my last letter
from st. Peters, the crypt and sacristy of
which are very interesting. We saw all the
jewels in the Treasury gorgeous display,
and the gold-embroidered dalmatic of the
Pope, hung up in glass case alongside of
another case in which was the one Leo III.
wore at the coronation OF Chariemagne.
But of all the churches in Rome which /
have seen, the only one which does not
seem tawdry and overloaded with orna-
ments is st. Pauls, outside the walls. Its
walls are liaed with the most precious mar
bles, the stained glass is exquisite, and the
altars of malachite and gilded bronze are
most simple and most elegant. A row OF
mosaic portraits of the Popes surround the
frieze above the columns, and are most life
like. These mosaic pictures are perfectly
wonderful. There are several in st. Peters
copies of pictures by the great masters
which have all the delicacy of tint of the
originals. The copy, for instance, of s'The
TRANSPORTATION, by Raphael, is perfect,
and of course is better than the original, in
as much as it is imperishable in color. We
have been to the Sistine Chapel only once,
and to the Stanza of Raphael and the Log
| gia. We drove to the Villa Borghese,
where there is a fine collection of ancient
statues also to Rospigliosi Palace to see
the frescoes of Guidos Aurora, copies of
| which, in basso relieve and medallions and
| in engravings, are so abundant in America
and so much admired. Of course we are
| proud, having seen all these things in the
originals. We took guide-book and ex-
plored
THE RUINS OF THE FORUM.
This is also familiar scene, as displayed
in our photographs, but the sensation of
prowling around amongst these ancient
vestiges of our race is indescribable. If
one gives up to moralizing, we can, when
looking SO far back into the past-only two
thousand years-cast our thoughts into the
future and imagine how it win be two thou
| sand years hence. Around us are the re-
mains of the architecture which in it's
strength has almost passed away-a city
which has never ceased to be inhabited
buried twenty feet deep in the dust of
Time alone. The solid stone of most i'm
posing and beautiful temples are divested
of their adornments and mouldering to de-
cay. If this u.s. what will our country come
to in the same length of time? Without
answering this conundrum we sauntered
| around to the Coliseum, the Arch of Con-
stantine, and of Titus, and of Septimus
severus. We met lady here who has in
terested us very much by her accounts of
travels in Egypt and the ascent she made
of the Nile. She has made some lovely
pictures OF the scenery met with in her
.iourneyings. Of course she is enthusiastic
about Egypt, and says that the temples in
| that country built before Abraham was a
boy are much more overwhelming than
these of Rome. This may be all very well,
but at present these around us answer ev-
| cry purpose, and perhaps after our minds
get settled back to their normal conditions
| and our brains have expanded our skulls
enough to contain what few things we have
seen on this little tour over the foot-stool,
we may try on Nile and the other regions
beyond.
FOUR WEEKS OF SIGHTSEEING
| Have pretty well disposed of the Eternal
City, and of us, too, for that matter, for
each night finds us all so tired that we are
glad to tumble into bed by nine o'clock and
to wish that before morning the earth
would open and swallow up all the churches
and galleries and ruins, and let us off from
the duty of seeing them. However, when
We awake in the morning and find that
those which are left are still open for in
spection, we start in again. Thus we went
to the Monastery where Tasso died, and
where his oak tree fiourishes about as well
as the old elm on Boston Common; then
to the Baths of Caracalla; then to the
Church of st. Stephen, queer, round
church, with the most awful frescoes. The
air is SO soft and balmy and the sunshine
so delightful that we drive around the Cam
pagna just for the fun of it, always with
Baedecker's Murray's and Hare's guide
books, and read up on the way, or 60 pek.
ing into some dark catacomb, or columbia
I rum, or crypt, for fear we may miss some
all-important thing which not to have seen
will cover us with shame and confusion in
time to come. If you want to know how
one feels in the Coliseum by moonlight you
can read all of it, for is it not written ir
cold Rome and New Italy," by Emilio
CASTELAR,, better than can write it? We
find Rome far too vast and overwhelming
to be at all enjoyable in the way we have
l.had to do it for the last four weeks. W.
congratulate ourselves that we have al
ready seen everything that is important
but as for taking it all in, with its historic
connections and artistic links, we dom
know anything about it. When our guild,
in the palace Of the Caesars showed us
fragment Of the wall that Remus jumpet
over, and the windows from which Tana
quill put off the people until she could max
servius king. we failed to all up the chasn
of time from then until now with auly al
ranged historical facts. Perhaps it will b
nice outline for some of the public schoo
scholars to try their ideas on. So we bid
adieu and took
A RUN TO MARsETLLEs.
At San Renis the orange trees were load
ed with ripe fruit and full of buds jus
ready to open great bushes OF tea roses
in full bloom, looked as though they ha
:. never felt frost in their lives great acaci
trees almost in blossom and date palm