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at Fyramus and Thisbe on the other wall. or
 Mars and Venus, and 8 capital study of Europa mounting the bull, surrounded by her maidens. All these are highly preserved and show perfect ease, Yigor and freshness of handling that many modem artist might l envy. The new find in bronze is an exdui- 1 site seated statuette figure of ''Abundantia l"
 about foot high, holding pdteTa, or cup; 1 her chair IS adorned with horns of plenty and the pressure of her body and the set of 1 her drapery over the cushion on which she sits IS so realistic that one expects to see her
 move upon her chair or rise at any moment | Beside her is slave boy, in backward atti- | tude, about foot and 8 half high, pouring 1 wine into cup. This is also new
 I visited Pompei next day and went straight to the diggings. The only wonder is that anything is ever dug up at all the process is ridiculousIy slow, even for Italy. ] The directors sit all day on the rubbish heaps smoking, and dozens of children file up and down with their little baskets of earth, while
 few idle peasants shovel up few lazy
 spadefuls at time. Still, the first thing I
 saw was the side of a dining room, uncoF-
 cred only few days ago. On one side was
 bright picture of fine cock and hens in a
 great state of excitement over large basket
 of grain and red cherries all upset. Land
 seer could not have done it better. The
 fondness of the Pompeiians for birds, beasts
 oAO AoLSo 4o dPpdIcAL. dLu they hlHhJS
 seemed to be dining. The wealth of cooking
 apparatus in the museum is astonishing.
 You have saucepans perforated with count
 less holes, in most elaborate patterns, every
 conceivable kind of boiler and caldron, casts
 for jellies, representing the prostrate hare
 and sucking pig; ladies, spoons, skewers, dishes for roasting six eggs or dozen eggs at once, toasting forks, gridirons, and fancy machines for pastry and delicate confection- cry what in Elizabeth's day were called
 ''conceits.''
 la Pompeii itself the oil pots and wine amphorse let into slabs, and of mosaic work Of colored marble, are among the quaintest features of the ruined shops. I saw in another new part a fine dining room, found three months ago, with some of the hveliest paint ings imaginable. The first section of the walls all around represented the boldest scenes under the sea-a conger struggling with an octopus, shark pursuing it's prey, e shoal of fish flying through the water, all glittering and fresh. The middle section dealt with birds and wild fowl floating, flying, quarreling, diving; and the upper and larger section gave fierce hunting scenes-a horse pursued by lion, an ox in desert scenery sprung upon by tiger, and all these were set In scenery of great force, variety, and character-woods, rocks, rivers, and green hills. The corridors and ante of this house are equally rich, the walls copiously vignetted with igures-dwarf on stilts, street scenes, animals. In one room there is per- fectly white suite of marble steps in atu, belonging to fountain. The whole thing stands as though finished yesterday, without B soil or chip scratch.
 They seem now to be coming to some of the richest houses, and have broken into the outer court of one in which stands beauti- ful fountain cupola and niche of elaborate mosaic work, representing gods and goddess es in the deep blue heavens half yelled with feecy clouds. The house is still imbedded under thirty feet of earth; but if this is the backyard, what are the halls and corridors? The plan now adopted is to leave as much as possible f1 stu Specimens repeated them selves, and 1t is needless to go on removing similar mosaics or frescoes, of which there are plenty in the Naples museum As a rule, therefore, all the latter excavations are more than the old ones, because they have been left unspoiled of their treasure I should like to spend week at Pompen every year, If only to watch the uncovering and revel in the new finds.