New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04

AARIIS awoke early and passed
NE curiously from room to room,
VI noting for more careful inspec-
ton by and by the rolls of
manuscripts. Even greater than his curl
ositv in gazing for the first time on this
.d nossession of his ancestors was his
..cerness to look out upon Rome itself, as
:. nushed back curtain and shutter and
tanned forth in the fresh morning upon
ana Of the many balconies, with an Oft
.,nsated dream realized at last He was
certainly fortunate in the time of his COM
ing to Rome That old pagan world, of
.A;cb Rome was the flower, had reached
10 nerfection in the things of poetry and
,--a perfection which indicated but too
.nrslv the eve of its decline. AS in some
vast intellectual museum, all the manifold
nroducts of that world were intact and in
hair places. and with custodians, also, still
sytant. duly qualified to appreciate and ex-
Main them. And at no period of its his
torv had the material Rome itself been
better worth seeing, lying there as com
Mate as that world of pagan intellect
which it represented in every phase Of
darkness and light, the various work of
msnv ages falling tremendously together
in it. and as yet untouched save by time
- e., II cf ricb sOftnaSS
to its complex expression. Much which
spoke of ages earlier than that of Nero,
the great rebuilder, fingered on, antique,
quaint, immeasurably venerable, like the
relics of the medieval city in the Paris
of Louis the Fourteenth; while the work of
, Nero's own time had come to have the sort
of Old World and picturesque interest
which the work of Lewis has for ourselves,
and without stretching parallel too far we
might perhaps lken the architectural
fnesse of the archaic Hadrian to the more
excellent products of our own Gothic re
vival. The temple of Antonius and Faustina
still fresh in all the majesty of it's
N'NsSAy 0ildSSN SUAu!lIlo u CtDDILbUC, Uuli
on the whole, little had been added under
the late and present Emperors, and during
nifty years of public quiet a sober brown
and gray had grown apace on things. The
gliding on the roof of many a temple had
oSt us garshness; cornice and capital of
polished marble shone out with all the
crisp freshness OF real flowers, amid the
already Wondering travertine and brick
work. though the birds had built freely
among them. What Marius then saw was
IN many respects, after all deduction OF
differences more like the modern Rome
han the mention of special losses might
FAD US TO suppose; the Renaissance, in its
most ambitious mood and with amplest re
sources, having resumed the ancient CLASH
ca! tradition there, with no break Of OBJ
@Fuetlon as it happened, in any very con-
siderable work o. the Middle Age, which
aad here left behind but slight residue OF
ITSELF. Immediately before him, on the
square. steep height, where the earliest
\ little old Rome had huddled itself together,
sfose the palace Of the Caesars Half veil
ing the vast substructure of rough. brown
"ehe--line upon line of successive ages OF
su'!ders-the trim, oId-fashioned garden
walks. under their closely -woven walls Of
aark glossy foliage, the test of long and
afe1ai cultivation, wound gradually, among
''oics trees, statues and fountains, dis
s'et and sparkling in the full morning SUM-
"sht, TO the richly tinted mass of pavilions
ma corridors above, centrng in the lofty,
'eNs marble dwelling place of Apollo
himself
dow often had Marius looked forward TO
aas arst, free wandering through Rome, to
se'ch he now went forth, with a heat in
ne town sunshine like mist Of fine gold
'a@ spread through the air. to the height
ais desire, making the dun GOODNESS Of
~s narrow streets welcome enough at in
s"ais He almost feared, as he descended
Ae star hastily, lest some unforeseen ac-
Sest might snatch the little cup Of en-
,'ymsnt from MIN before he passed the