Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-19

conceptions Of life, one after another, rid
died by the merciless bullets OF a logic
that results from a conception Of things
wholly foreign to your own. The attorney
belongs to the new Italy of a new patriot
ism born OF a time when even italy can
breathe air OF religious and Intellectual
freedom.
Few visitors to Naples omit a trip to
Pompeii How we love the tragic in life,
love II, yet fear II. Pompeii partly eN-
cavated ruins attract men from all coun-
tries Of the earth. It is a very hot spot
in summer even warmer than Milano,
which has a bad reputation for heat. Blu
you can spend four or five hours, OF a day,
Of pleasure and profit in Pompeii. It's
sights engrave themselves on your memory.
You comprehend old Roman life better
than in RFome itself, as here ancient
Rome comes to view in a city Of wealth,
pleasure and progress. In the great
museum Of Naples the finds are being
stored and arranged except the houses
and such portions as would give a vivid
historical idea Of the actual look Of old
PompeiL Many a superb mosaic pavement
lies there intact and fountains and statues
remain to snliven the scene. with only
a trine Of imagination II. is not difficult
to reconstruct the city in your mind. II
only naughty old vesuvius will be kind
enough to postpone hts pranks until all
the city has been e~xcavated.. He looks
rather suspicious though. There must be
some good, old-fashioned Roman, though.
In the people that persist in living about
Vesuvius after all the desolation II has
wrought. But the soil has marvellous
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Of course in the hope that the grouchy
old mountain will not pour out his walls
of wrath just in that particular direction.
Somewhat south Of Pompeii Italy offers
a sight which Athens alone can match and
surpass, the Greek temples Of Postum, on
a very desolate and malarious plain by the
sea. Three structures of old Greeian art
stand there quite near the share, one of
them a miracle of beauty and a fair state
Of preservation. Coming from Rome, with
Its pompous. often over-gilded and gaudy
churches, to this Grecianly plain and
beautiful severe work, awakened in me
a living sense OF the inward secret Of
high art, beautiful simplicity in idea and
plan. Our American art will never attain
to anything like a masterpiece before the
Grecian ideal OF beautiful simplicity con-
quers our rather barbarian inclination to
seek results from wealth of material and
over decoration. That tendency runs all
through modern art, exceptions, of course.
to be noted. AS the man OF literature
must first HE into classic periods to find
high ideals, so should our men Of art train
themselves. first Of all by the old Grecian
models, not to copy them, but to derive
the secret Of powerful art. Why should
flimsy Paris and Parisfanism be the first
dominating impressions in a n artists soul.
1 pass by the delights OF a most exhill-
rating trip to Amalfi, Sorrento and Capri,
and go on, by a vary tiresome road to the
very lovely city of Pisa, somewhat north
of Rome. on a plain stands this once
most famous city. Her attraction is a
series of church structures, absolutely
unique; a cathedral, a campanile (bell
tower, a baptistry, and a campo santo