The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-19


 long brick building surrounded by streets on every side. it's most prom inent feature being the atrium from which the whole building is often nam ed. Its architecture may be compared to that of a mediaeval double-storied cloister, necessarily very airy and spa cious to give the inmates, who were seldom allowed to go out, the chance of taking bodily exercise.
 The atrfum was surrounded by state apartments on the ground floor, while the private rooms of the vestals were on the upper floor. The house was built in an unhealthful position against the cliff of Palestine.
 Here towers the Domus Gaiana or House of Caliguia to the height of 150 feet, whose facade is represented if it's present ruinous state, although only in its substructures built by Galiguia to raise the slope of the hill. The pal ace. with its state apartments and halls and porticos is al gone.
 The House of Augustus.
 Here may be seen also the Dor-1us Augustiana or house of Augustus, the very seat of the empire. 1t is divided into three sections, the first, from the side of the Velia, occupied by the pro- pylaia, the temple of Apollo. the DOT. tico of the Dianaids with It's ff.y>riar- ble statues of the Dianaids and an equal number of equestrian figures of the sons of Egistus. and the Greek and Latin libraries. The middle sec tion was occupied by the shrine of vesta. and the last on the side or the Circus, by the imperial house itseIf, a set of magnificent buildings crowded with the masterpieces of Greek, Tus- can and Roman art.
 Separating the house of Augustus from the baths of Septimus Severus IS the Stadium of Domitian, oblong shap- ed with a curved end. 1se-xards long and forty-seven wide; the Circus Max imus, which unfortunately Is not visi- bIe in either of the two accompanying illustrations; the Garden of Adonis laid in Oriental style. with large pots of silver in which were sown the spe- cial plants sacred to the god who rep resented the sun and was regarded as the promoter of vegetable life; the Palace of Septimus Severus; the Septi- zonium, consisting of seven rows of columns synbolizing the seven bands of Heaven; and many other temples and palaces innumerable, with columns, statues, and gilt bronze decorations Where the Worlds Destinies Were
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 Underneath the Paiatin is seen the Forum, where the destinies of the an- .cient world were swayed. Here every stone. so to speak, is carefully repro duced, triumphal arches and columns, temples and shrines and rostra and all the other buildings. .,
 The Heroon Romuli, or Temple or RomuIus. the Forum of Peace with its temple; the Forum Nervae, tnclosed within marble coated walls supporting richly carved entablature; the Forum Augustum, with it's walls raised to great height to screen the view or the mean houses clustered on the slopes of the Quirinal Hill, some typi- cal specimens of which have also been reconstructed in order to give an idea of what a common Roman dwelling looked like; the Forum Julium around the temple dedicated by Julius Caesar to Venus Genetrix. where the master piece of Arkesi1aos was, and finally the Forum Tralani. the most magnifi- cent of them all, a masterpiece of arr chitecture and a wonderful feat of en- gineering skill, with it's column ito show posterity how high rose the mountain leveled to make room for ths forum the propy1aia with the triumph al arch of the founder of the square with the equestrian statue in the mid de, the Basilica. U1pia, the Bibiiotheca, Ulpia, two hemicycles, and the Tenn