The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-07-25

list which some scholarly friend had
made out for him, and if he did not find
it there he would say. "Oh das ist NIGHTS!
das list nichtsr,ss GO that is nothing!
worth whitley
They had heard of Ludovise and the
Rospegliosi, but for some reason or
other their erudite friend had omitted the
Pantheon from the list, and SO not find
ing it there the man said, 80 das ist
NIGHTS smiled by myself to think OF
Rome's greatest glory next to
st. Peters, being nothing in particular.
ouirinal Palace.
But they gaiIy resigned themselves to
the enjoyments of the Quirinal Palace,
where we waited outside an hour by the
colossal group of statuary called the
t'sHorse Tamers." This is, one of the
most celebrated artistic works in Rome,
and certainly one of the very finest. 1t
is!said through all the many remarkable
vicissltudes of the city this has contin-
ued unburied, it standing formerly be-
fore the Therme of Constantine.
There was royal reception that after
noon in the Palace, and while we were
waiting many distinguished personages
went out and in, King Humbert himself
going out at last in his gorgeous state
carriage with three footmen in bright
red uniforms, standing up behind the
carriage, the arms of all three being in
terlocked.
At last inside we saw beautiful things
in every part. Tire sweet Margherita
was represented in statuary and painting
in all her more youthful loneliness, and
also as she looks now, and the Prince of
Naples and the King were also several
times in portraits ON the walls. The
palace is elegant, but also homelilse, and
a really tolerable place in which to live,
although it has not SO much of the gildeds
glitter that one findsin German palaces.
The people regard their sovereign with
genuine affection and appreciate all the
marks of favor which they SO affably be-
stow.
As for these German acquaintance, l
could do nothing with them here, the
wife putting her hands on all the statu-
airy, looked into all the mirrors, fingered
all the pictures, sat down in the easy
chairs, reelined on the sofas, feeling of
the tapestry to see if it was the real
thing. Twas glad enough when we got
one side, since authorities abroad every
where are very severe, and was afraid
self, since | had got the permits, was
given the guide and felt responsible for
the party. kept thinking Of some Ger
man writer, who has written SO damag-
ingly of American sight seers, saying that
they are such relic hunters that nothing
is safe within their reach, and telling how
they handle and soil everything they
see.
But the Palatine Hill they partly I'M
derstood, having really heard something
of the conspicuous old parts, but had
they known that it was unexcayated I'M
til 1860 the Farnese Garde no covering
the hill up to that time, think they
would have gone wild with delight.
When descending the steps back of the
Capitol and the man first espied the city
of ruins lying all about, he actually
caught his breath and said s'Was it's das?'
Telling him the portion irstat hand was
the Forum, he exclaimed Forum Ro-
manum,'' andfwas riveted ito the spot.
He took out his note book and COM
menced to write, and we could by no
pretext get him away for fifteen min
utes. spoke to one of the party and
told her that perhaps we had better not
tell him anything more at present. as the
steps leading up to the wonders of the
L eblcbttaC, 10 d1lilO6U- OAlluuOt1Ooo,
were just before us, and / knew if he
took the time to write out everything on
the way we should not be able to pro-
coed far.
AS we went along they kept losing
themselves in the under ground passage
"a thing quite easy to do.) and among
the arches, and numerous rooms of the
Palace of the Caesars, and as l felt rather
responsible for them I would go back
and forth finding them, but finally in
some more intricate place than usual
they got lost altogether and although I
made great searches, looking for them
everywhere during the afternoon saw
no more of them here.
At last they turned up on Mt Pincio,
having remembered the injunction of
some one who has said IF you get lost
in Rome. take a carriage" Having got
out of the ruins some way they had taken
a cab whose driver had proceeded to
climb up this hill to show them the gar
dens and public drive, this and the Jani-
culum to Pamphli Doria" being the
place where one sees the fashion of Rome
congregate for their afternoon airing.
Catacombs.
Jonah swimming in a boat and being
thrown from the whale as seen in so
many of the old mouIdy walls of st.
Callestus amused them. The young
priest told us about it in French and one
of our number translated what he said to
them in German. The priest dwelt much
on this Jonah episode, declaring that it
is typical of Christ's resurrection, and
that the early Christians had SO regarded
it, though some commentators speaking
of this very same thing here say |Jonah's
catastrophe is symbolical of our own
final assumption.
This burial chamber is certainly a
weird old place in which to be inferred,
each man making his own grave in, adj
vance underneath his own property, but
it does not equal in weirdness the cata-
combs in the church of the Cappocini,
where they show you the bones and
skeletons of four thousand monks, some
of them sitting up and dressed in opera
attire, glaring at you as though the play
was becoming too tedious. Every twenty
years, in case of many new interrments,
they treat the longest inferred in this
CHASTITY fashion.
On leaving the Catacombs and going
back over the Appian Way to the city, [
babe my German friends formal adieu
30 .;x