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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 49 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 81185 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 75 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Rome 28 Italy 24 italian 23 roman 21 St. 18 great 18 Florence 16 San 16 Pope 15 Venice 14 illustration 13 England 12 little 12 Peter 12 Mr. 12 Church 11 like 11 Naples 11 God 10 day 9 Piazza 9 Maria 7 man 7 look 7 french 7 english 7 Santa 7 Palazzo 7 Palace 7 Medici 7 Madonna 7 Europe 7 English 7 Christ 7 Angelo 6 time 6 Siena 6 Milan 5 venetian 5 place 5 city 5 Virgin 5 Vatican 5 Paris 5 New 5 Monte 5 Lorenzo 5 King 5 John 5 Grand Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 6478 man 5712 day 5147 time 4595 city 3813 church 3688 place 3530 way 3370 house 3302 life 3090 year 3056 people 3010 work 2982 side 2823 wall 2657 thing 2569 picture 2546 town 2497 hand 2341 part 2331 one 2327 hill 2316 world 2278 street 2160 road 2153 foot 2125 nothing 2043 water 2022 name 2021 sea 1991 stone 1960 woman 1954 century 1946 palace 1913 country 1867 mountain 1867 head 1848 room 1843 eye 1839 marble 1778 art 1614 night 1544 beauty 1519 hour 1486 door 1472 statue 1464 face 1454 building 1449 light 1420 power 1376 tree Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 13821 _ 4060 Rome 2538 Italy 2518 S. 2018 St. 1774 Florence 1756 Venice 1652 i. 1348 Mr. 1271 San 1259 Pope 990 Church 887 Naples 810 England 751 ii 729 God 726 Medici 719 del 701 de 701 Piazza 696 Lorenzo 657 Peter 650 Madonna 646 Irma 643 Palazzo 610 Via 603 Maria 578 English 574 Francis 567 France 565 di 558 Saint 554 John 542 Duke 533 Romans 528 Christ 519 Europe 505 George 496 Rollo 492 Giovanni 481 Emperor 480 Charles 477 Genoa 472 Palace 472 Monte 455 Santa 452 Pisa 450 King 445 Roman 435 Angelo Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 33220 it 24934 i 19692 he 15888 we 13147 they 7429 them 6470 him 6266 you 5251 me 4801 us 4504 she 2004 himself 1900 one 1877 her 1544 itself 1295 themselves 795 myself 430 ourselves 411 herself 133 yourself 117 thee 80 mine 66 theirs 60 his 54 ours 39 oneself 34 yours 30 ''em 28 hers 20 ye 8 em 8 ''s 5 thyself 5 thy 4 yourselves 4 thou 4 tessie 4 je 3 guelf 2 with,--who 2 taverns,--our 2 d''oro 2 24th.--we 1 young:--and 1 whence 1 us;--they 1 us:--and 1 us:-- 1 ung 1 tweed,--you Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 118234 be 36425 have 8809 see 7799 do 6246 make 6113 say 5761 come 5530 go 4733 find 4675 take 4075 look 3704 know 3688 give 3605 seem 3126 stand 2862 pass 2840 think 2623 call 2598 leave 2061 tell 1992 lie 1887 build 1789 bring 1725 become 1674 begin 1652 live 1634 rise 1612 keep 1607 fall 1551 turn 1532 bear 1528 feel 1525 get 1432 set 1398 show 1337 hold 1326 hear 1307 sit 1287 die 1286 lead 1260 use 1246 follow 1224 enter 1214 appear 1200 grow 1198 put 1197 write 1194 remain 1183 carry 1152 speak Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 17555 not 9473 so 7230 great 6854 more 6470 very 6149 little 5160 other 4813 up 4779 old 4748 here 4706 now 4598 only 4380 most 4158 then 3942 long 3903 first 3801 well 3751 many 3748 out 3561 good 3493 much 3440 still 3329 as 3038 even 2907 down 2904 there 2763 own 2757 such 2623 last 2619 far 2540 too 2529 high 2426 beautiful 2276 never 2253 again 2238 same 2205 once 2101 few 2017 away 1935 small 1911 also 1910 almost 1830 large 1806 ever 1780 however 1758 just 1684 ancient 1680 italian 1637 white 1615 whole Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 988 good 921 most 838 least 508 great 308 high 269 fine 160 early 135 large 134 old 125 bad 105 slight 91 Most 79 noble 78 near 75 rich 73 lovely 70 low 64 small 64 deep 63 late 52 pure 43 grand 41 eld 39 strong 39 fair 36 strange 34 bright 31 young 31 happy 30 long 29 manif 28 poor 25 dark 24 mean 24 common 23 simple 23 gay 22 pleasant 22 lofty 21 rare 20 wild 20 proud 19 topmost 19 furth 17 soft 16 true 16 sweet 16 busy 15 full 15 faint Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3459 most 127 well 111 least 5 near 3 long 2 ¦ 2 worst 2 sky,--the 2 odor,--the 2 infest 2 hard 2 goethe 2 brightest 1 sweetest 1 shortest 1 reni,--the 1 purest 1 lines:-- 1 lady,--the 1 house,--the 1 highest 1 heedest 1 farthest 1 exprest 1 easiest 1 early 1 city,--are 1 birth,--either Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.org 2 archive.org 1 gallica.bnf.fr. 1 gallica.bnf.fr Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46092/46092-h/46092-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46092/46092-h.zip 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr. 1 http://gallica.bnf.fr 1 http://archive.org/details/littlepilgrimage00pottuoft 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38 one does not 16 _ see _ 16 _ was _ 14 _ is _ 9 _ is not 9 people were not 8 italy is not 8 one is always 8 one is not 8 world has ever 7 _ do _ 7 one has only 7 rome is not 6 _ did _ 6 day is over 6 life was not 6 one has not 6 one is so 6 one looks down 6 thing is certain 6 town is not 6 world has not 5 church is not 5 church was not 5 city did not 5 day was not 5 day was very 5 life is not 5 men do not 5 one does n''t 5 one has ever 5 one is apt 5 people are so 5 rome is full 5 rome was not 5 streets are narrow 5 thing is paradise 5 time was not 4 _ are _ 4 _ does _ 4 _ had _ 4 _ live _ 4 _ living _ 4 church is full 4 day has not 4 day was so 4 men are not 4 one is conscious 4 one is glad 4 people are always Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 church has no pretensions 2 church is not very 2 day was not yet 2 life has not yet 2 life is not long 2 life were no easy 2 man is no longer 2 men make no such 2 pictures are not nearly 2 things are not so 2 time has not yet 2 time was not yet 2 town is not overclean 2 way was not particularly 2 world had not elsewhere 2 world was not worthy 1 _ are not so 1 _ does not always 1 _ has no care 1 _ has no longer 1 _ is not merely 1 _ is not very 1 _ was not readier 1 _ was not yet 1 _ were not averse 1 _ were not mere 1 church has not much 1 church is not famous 1 church is not only 1 church was not equally 1 church was not likely 1 churches are not remarkable 1 churches do not all 1 cities do not fully 1 cities were not long 1 city are not cruel 1 city did not once 1 city had not wit 1 city has no foundations 1 city is no less 1 city is not richer 1 city is not so 1 city was not satisfied 1 day had not yet 1 day has not yet 1 day is not amalfi 1 day is not far 1 day was not long 1 house was no longer 1 house was not only Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 171169 7881 159951 16477 145294 28294 143622 2311 142399 16180 116861 23340 115248 10769 114630 14972 113075 39100 111726 14634 110222 12561 101099 14276 101023 16705 97562 7373 96139 40394 92242 29658 85753 7879 85654 16445 85524 28600 85403 7880 82708 28614 81902 25855 81040 46092 79257 18049 78430 37206 77990 7380 75282 36817 74526 44212 65570 39629 53178 18845 51497 19061 43856 43754 42335 42998 40920 23430 33430 49831 25225 47213 23317 52619 21078 27873 11700 39806 7237 3397 3501 13870 23959 24689 24652 25077 8858 24452 24488 3226 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 91.0 37206 88.0 49831 87.0 39629 86.0 39806 85.0 23430 84.0 7373 79.0 7380 79.0 16705 79.0 42998 78.0 27873 77.0 39100 77.0 43754 77.0 16477 76.0 14634 76.0 12561 76.0 23340 75.0 44212 75.0 46092 75.0 28600 75.0 28614 75.0 28294 75.0 14972 75.0 10769 74.0 19061 74.0 47213 73.0 40394 72.0 52619 72.0 18049 71.0 14276 71.0 25855 71.0 29658 70.0 3397 70.0 7881 70.0 7880 70.0 2311 69.0 18845 68.0 7879 66.0 13870 66.0 16445 65.0 36817 62.0 16180 23959 24689 24652 25077 8858 24452 24488 3226 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10769 be long in Florence, looking at this tower every day and many times a one''s, the little man found time also to build beautiful churches Cosimo de'' Medici was, I think, the wisest and best ruler that Florence returned--the change being the work of Lorenzo''s second son, Giovanni S. Lorenzo was a very old church in the time of Giovanni de'' Medici, sculptors and did much good work in Florence, as we shall see at the for though he was a Florentine, Florence has very little of his work: when Piero di Lorenzo de'' Medici was banished from Florence and the the room of the little pictures, we find, on our left, Raphael''s his friend Donatello, but his only other sculptured work in Florence is a bust of Piero di Lorenzo de'' Medici (whom Botticelli painted in old Florence--Pico and Politian--Piero di Cosimo--Andrea del Sarto. 12561 continual necessity to climb up and down steep places in the badlypaved roads, soon render the stranger weary of a residence in this half an hour through long empty streets, then out at the town-gate, large open place near a river, where the camels rest, and where they Burnaba, a place lying on the sea-coast not far from the town, and country looks like an Arabian desert, and a few unfruitful datepalms rise beside the roofless stone houses. Near places of this description a great number of people are always About an hour''s journey from Jerusalem the valley opens, and little The little convent and church are both situated near the town, and I happened one day to pass a house, from within which a great An hour and a half before we reached the goal of this day''s journey, sea of sand surrounding the town; but soon we reached the beautiful 13870 But to return to the ancient history of the Palace (now Hotel Royal were lodged in the Dandolo Palace of the _Calle delle Razze_». This historic Palace passed from the Dandolos to the Gritti family, in passed to her daughter Giuseppina Roux, and forms the present Hotel topografical position at Venice, is one of the most interesting hotels the windows of the Palazzo Dandolo, now Royal Hotel Danieli, which But the palace itself, famous in the history of Venice, having been Royal Hotel Danieli), forms an integral part of the picture, for it is one of the most magnificent palaces of Venice; and we shall presently the left the ancient Dandolo Palace--each splendid in its own style--and second floor, where are the spacious concert-room and various handsome in this historic palace to adapt it to its new use as a hotel, yet not Nota bene--The ancient Palazzo Dandolo, now Hotel Royal Danieli, and all 14276 poet''s time to hold charcoal and lime; and not long ago died an old like to have the ducal cities of North Italy, such as Mantua, Modena, magnificent palaces should have built such a poor little house: "It poor little place a sensation, for I think such a thing as an omnibus There was little left of our day when we had dined; but having seen pillars of the houses, and the mason, who is at hand, places little great changes which had taken place in Italy under its new national long time in such places one day, looking for the Tarpeian Rock, less looks, must have given a great charm to student life in other times. A quaint old door opened into the little stone house, and admitted us great shows of two thousand years ago might take place in it to-day. wonderful to see, in these little Italian cities which have been the 14634 the great love with which he burns for all learned men, brought and a grey-green mist of rising crops and new-fledged oak-trees lies like of the court had spent a summer night in long debate on love, rising is enough to state that, earliest of all Italian cities, Milan passed Florence, like all Italian cities, owed her independence to the duel larger cities, like Milan and Florence, began to make war upon the in mind, if we seek to understand how it was that a city like Florence right, and exercised the power of life and death within the city. years the Medici loved to remember this return of Cosimo. like The Beauty of Women, The Beauty of Men, Falling in Love, The same thought of love growing like a flower receives another turn I''d make thee still more lovely than thou art: Thy love too great 14972 fleshy leaves set like a cushion on cold ledges and dark places of rushes beneath; and the snow-peaks, whom we love like friends, abide senses of light, colour, form, and air, and motion, and rare tinkling I have been dreaming of far-away old German towns, with gabled houses church of great beauty, with tall Lombard bell-tower, pierced with Women in San Remo work all day, but men and boys play for the great sea rises ever so far into the sky, until the white sails hang clouds which crown its mountains shine all day, and glitter like an artist from the man who may have had like thoughts and feelings. The human form, the world around us, the works of man''s hands, music presents man''s spirit to itself through form. of San Vio come and go the whole day long--men in blue shirts with 16180 no English book on the ancient marbles of Rome like Corsi''s _Pietre Countries introduced into Rome--Christian Churches made up of Remains Lazuli--Church of Jesuits--Abundance of Marbles in Ancient Rome passed the great northern road of Italy, constructed by the Roman it left Rome was supposed to be situated outside of the present walls, ancient Rome of many of its finest works of art in order to build and present day under the pavement of the Roman Forum, near the Temple of The Forum lies like an open sepulchre in the heart of old Rome. anniversary of his death, about thirty years ago, to the chapel of St. Jerome, the poet''s remains are now covered by a huge marble monument of the palaces and churches of Rome, attests to this day the beauty One of the most beautiful and highly-prized marbles of ancient Rome found among the ruins of ancient Rome, or among the churches to which 16445 Prefatory introduction to a work like this, can hope little better usage speaking only of the little places we passed through in coming along. terminating with a beautiful view of the surrounding country, like spots thousand comical things in the same way, I will relate one:--Mr. Piozzi''s valet was dressing my hair at Paris one morning, while some man England, friend, said I, do you like it?"--"Mais non, madame, pas so many times reason to expect; and I do believe that Venice, like other I expressed to the French lady my admiration of St. Mark''s Place. a country, till I left trusting to books, and looked a little about me. If any thing in England seem to excite their wonder and ill-placed This reflection felt like one naturally suggested to me by the place; pleasures, which the inhabitants of another place think _they_ would use 16477 things, the long ways of the great sea, the roads and the deserts and like to be lost in the maze of the city) on your way to the beautiful What then did Pisa look like in these the days of her great power and died in the city of Florence on St. Thomas''s Day in the year of Christ enemies built her splendid city, her beautiful Duomo, her Tower like the beautiful work of Biduino da Pisa, as it is said, sculptures in relief rang from the Duomo, I came into a beautiful city that, like some To pass through Florence for the most part by the old ways, from church us of that far-away flower-like beauty of fifteenth-century painting and and quiet of this great and beautiful church that has guarded Florence of old than to-day, when the work of the Greeks themselves has come into 16705 Palace we shall see pictures of the Pope''s sojourn in Venice and observed in Venice, he answered me that he noted but little of the city, little place like Venice! the great Doge Dandolo brought them to Venice. The river of Venice--Canal steamers--Motor boats--Venetian nobility Venice; but he enjoyed his later Venetian days to the full. Favretto worked there; then a calle, and the great pawnshop of Venice, palace has pretty little Gothic windows, and then a small brown house The great palace a little way down the canal certain artists, when painting in Venice, seem to see little else. the best Venetian painters--Bellini, Titian, Carpaccio, Giorgione (but Venice, and this, in the picture, he is handing to the Doge. The little church of the market-place--the oldest in Venice--is S. picture ever seen in Venice. picture by a great Venetian painter who is too little represented in the sensuously beautiful picture in Venice--Giorgione''s "Tempest". 18049 When, to-day, for the first time in my life, I saw the shores of day, all the people walk about "like ladies and gentlemen going a every-day beauties of nature, a soft evening, a lovely landscape, the above my eye, they looked like colossal statues. Guido''s lovely heads--or merely for the pleasure of looking at made it look like a scene fit only to be peopled by fancy''s fairest chaste and beautiful picture, full of feeling and sweetly coloured; spent half an hour looking at the picture _called_ the Cumean Sibyl of mind to think, and a heart to feel, and thoughts both of pain and never saw or felt any thing like the enchantment of the earth, air, lovely country lived like their descendants mostly in the open air, Italy, what I saw to-day has most enchanted my senses and imagination. priests and cardinals to-day looking like so many old beggar-women 18845 at least), churches, and a great temple all in the air, and beautiful of the walls were also covered with life-like paintings, so that the beautiful buildings of the modern city, is unhappily placed. On reaching the end of a long line of narrow streets, white walls, and great churches which come rolling past me like a sea, it is a small Rome--quarries in the old time, but afterward the hiding-places of the Old Palace; it is a great mass of stone, without columns, without laid in July of that year, with all the greatness of Florence looking the great dome he was to build--and so built it, all opposition Many of the fine old palaces of Florence, you know, are built in a Campanile, high above palace roofs, arcades and church domes, its bells The Ducal Palace, which was the great work of Venice, was built 19061 Senate House, round about any large building, little shops stick close, city; here, before the tombs of the great, people might well reflect wall is some forty feet high, built of stone from the Pisan hills, Stand at the bottom of the great market-place of Pompeii, and look up this watercourse were adorned with old houses and long walls, and trees, to the great Northern wall, we have a wonderful relic of those times; city that can never be ruined--for instance, the great stone quarries, that from the city below they look like the remains of two different There are very old and very beautiful little churches in Athens, remains of the ancient city are stones; for the massive square tower, The great gate of the city, a portion of the wall, and four of the projection of huge stones, looking like a square tower, on its right 2311 The case of Smollett''s Travels, there is good reason to hope, is clever people about Nice in modern times, one would probably find that French history both as the home of famous men in great number and as, great way out to sea, sometimes even as far as the coast of England. Sussex pay English gold for great quantities of French brandy, tea, day, in the skirts of the town, a great number of females thus mounted, in a day or two for Montpellier, although that place is a good way out great body of excellent water, which by pipes and other small branching Next day we journeyed by the way of Antibes, a small maritime town, It contains several small towns, and a great number of villages; chiefly supplied by a small stream of very fine water; another great What further I have to say of Nice, you shall know in good time; at 23340 women, followed by a very deaf old man, who appeared to think that the Here the old man pricked up his ears, and said that he hadn''t heard of "Halt!" said the old man in his great voice, "where are you men going?" "I think one of the andirons has fallen down, darter!" said the old man, There was a mill on the New Bridge road, ten miles from White House, "Good evening, Major," I said, to the ranking Confederate officer, and "Take away your ambulance, old fellow," I said, "I shan''t go home till I "Good by!" said Mr. Michie; "if I have a house at that time, you shall When the man said "Ah!" I thought that my horse would run away, and cavalry-men, in line of battle, stood together like walls of stone, Some said that he died "game;" and all went away, leaving the old man 23430 "No, uncle George," said Rollo, "you had better have the seat by the "I am glad we are going to have postilions, uncle George," said Rollo, "Yes, uncle George," said Rollo, "let us go and see what they have got." "Let us have some hot coffee, uncle George," said Rollo, eagerly. "What has become of all the seats, uncle George?" said Rollo. "O, uncle George!" said Rollo; "I don''t think that can possibly be. "Must I count every thing, uncle George?" said Rollo. "Uncle George," said Rollo, when he came back, "I give it up. "Yes, uncle George," said Rollo; "I want to see very much. "Come, uncle George," said Rollo, "let us sit down here a few minutes, "Uncle George," said Rollo, as they walked along, "we are going directly "Uncle George," said Rollo, as they walked along, "how came all their "You don''t like the plan very well, uncle George," said Rollo. 23959 24452 24488 24652 24689 25077 25855 Stepney is a belated village of this sort; its grey old church of St. Dunstan, buried as it is now in the very heart of East London, stood The day is broken up into a number of little times and of the town, the grey mass of San Remo perched on a cliff-like steep, Two centuries passed quietly over the little town ere the long as the political head of the English people ruled, like Ælfred or the age of the Great Charter till to-day have come and gone; to see the The plain, homely old man''s face still looks down on us line for thought at their little hearts the long days glide away till autumn little town that sloped quietly down to the abbey walls, along the him frankly in the streets of a quiet little town like Bury St. Edmunds, the town''s greatness before University life began, is known to most 27873 the green Campagna pale like a strip of sea. the side--steeps of sere woods, great mountains, like jasper or some Here and there a cherry-tree in the valley deep below, like a little grove of ilexes, immense branches like beams overhead, from the great smoke-like, but the colour of old dark silver; the vineyards of pale little trees and of great pale asphodels; the smell of them and of round the highest Latin peak, which looks like an altar slab, a great Continuing outside the walls, we come to the little church of San A little valley between two low grass hills; a stream, a few reeds, fortified-looking apse, its yard and great gate-tower, looks like a officiating priests, like great white peacocks, at the altar; the proportion; and the thinnest little distant spinny, looking like a There he was, as little likely to move away, apparently, 28294 Rome was made head of the universal Church by the edict of a man stained the dawning of a new day upon the Vaudois and Italy, that that Church aid them in this great work, assured that the door to Rome and Italy veil, shut out the Italy of the Romans and the City of the Seven Hills. long after Rome shall have passed away, they will be a source of Church of Rome; but I just as little doubt that a majority of these, if Gate--Desolate Look of the City by Night--The Pope''s Custom-House the eye of the Jew every time he passes out or comes in, "All day long I when they have got into this garret are they at liberty to worship God. The Pope comes, not in person, but in his cardinals and priests, to the Romans from burning him in person on the streets of Rome any day, 28600 his right hand went the Pope''s vicar; and before him three great times when the Emperors defended the Popes against the Roman people. the Fifteenth was Pope in Rome, ''a new tyrant arose in the city which the Third, that the finest festival in Rome took place while one Pope old man lived on, the great concourse gathered strength within itself, men-at-arms of the great houses, ready of tongue and hand, but friendly Then the Cardinals elected Pope Nicholas the Fifth, a good man and a Rome, was made strong in the days of Romulus, and it was in his time, times have longed for Romans to people a free Rome. In the days of her power she had lived in the great palace for a time. Long before her time, a Riario, the Cardinal of Saint George, had like church and the Saint''s body, though they respected Rome very little. 28614 Rome was a brown city in those days, when there was no marble and little is no irony like that which often ended the lives of great Romans. Empire at the beginning of our era to the Rome of the Popes in the year household life ultimately turned in Rome''s greatest times. Two years later the people of Rome shouted "Life and Victory to Pope John, strong, high-handed, a man of order in days of chaos, ruled the city, the stronghold of a dim, great house, long passed away, can give an idea of the picture in times when Rome was still Roman; no In the days of Paul the Second, what might be called living Rome, taken of the city, and that the great old Roman Barons, the Colonna, the on the north, to teach the people of Rome the great truth of those days, 29658 the work of Franklin Simmons in Rome is a feature of Italy that haunts Angel, Church of San Andrea delle Fratte, Rome _Page_ 12 Statue of Christ, Ancient Church of San Martina, Rome " 193 ROME, as the picturesque city of the Popes in the middle years of the that Rome began to be recognized as the modern world-centre of art. student life--form a definite period in the history of modern art in Rome, wandered for three years, it is said, among the statues of gods all who love Italy--is one of the many beautiful pictorial scenes of Mr. Stetson which enchant the eye and haunt the imagination. century, Rome held her place as the world centre of modern artistic The Rome of to-day is in strange contrast even to the city that Page and [Illustration: STATUE OF CHRIST, ANCIENT CHURCH OF SAN MARTINA, ROME entire life and work illustrate the beauty of holiness. 3226 3397 LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES--Roundabout to Boston During the four years of my life in Venice the literary intention was the two visits he paid Venice in my time, had sent it to him, after smiling time for any literary endeavorer at home in the life-and-death that literary Boston which mainly represented American literature to me. The official chief of the consul at Venice was the United States Minister arrival Mr. Motley came to me with a handful of newspapers which, Before I left Venice, however, there came a turn in my literary luck, and later, when I saw him in New York, that he consented to publish my book. a man with the heart to feel the wrongs of men so little friended then as worthy to live in Boston." It was New-Year''s eve, and that night it came New York; and then I went to Boston to see Mr. Fields concerning details. 36817 the city was still governed "by the Senate and people of Rome," and "We are all people of consideration in this house," said a Roman to presume to come to words with "a Roman of Rome." On the other hand Though the Roman cardinal as a prince of the Church has always been As these old families, "pure Romans of Rome," have died out, their the Roman piety; Christian Rome moulded religion into a citizenship, The "Roman of Rome" leaves such things together with the and more Roman than in Rome. the Roman district who came in time to assist the Pope at the great churches of Rome, together with the regional deacons of the city, and of Rome, was coveted by other than Romans, and the Pope would create By the eleventh century the cardinals of the Roman Church are The "Pope''s own city of Rome" should never be 37206 In little puffs and specks and stars, it looks very like bits of water, is white looking, under the great dark toe of Calabria, the toe little way out to sea, heaps of shadow deposited like rubbish heaps in Enter two fresh passengers: a black-eyed, round-faced, bright-sharp man bits of blue and flying white cloud overhead: the little boats like distance down the table sat a little hard-headed grey man in a long grey a little fort ahead, done in enormous black-and-white checks, like a And at last a little man with lank, black hair, like an esquimo, tram, like a little train, bumps to rest, after having wound round the The dark-browed man looked up at the girovago and said: Ah, but--said the little dark bus-conductor, with his small-featured head-cloths looked like some thick bed of flowers, geranium, black I went round the ship to look at the dark night of the sea. 39100 blue sea till it reached the shore at Naples, and somewhere near the city of mediæval days, the capital of Anjou and Aragon, is so far lost Naples where a man who cares for the past of the old tragic city can Castel dell''Uovo slips out of sight, the old brown city passes across far away, encircling the plain like the walls of some great certainly in sight of it, that there stood in old Roman days the villa No man can know the city or its people if he neglect the churches. which may some day place Naples high among the cities of the world; The day will come when all this great life of Roman husbandry will be In Roman days, just as in our own, men looked up from Naples the hot summer days he came out to his castle by the sea for rest, and 39629 So Aunt Caroline remained on the boat, and Irma, with Uncle Jim ahead carriage away, and then Irma and Marion hastened to one of the little "Hasn''t Marion been here?" asked Aunt Caroline, when she and Uncle Jim "You are very kind to think of me," said Irma, turning toward Marion, "I really believe," said Irma, "that Aunt Caroline thinks I will catch tell Aunt Caroline and Uncle Jim, he would hardly confide to Irma. When they returned to the hotel, Marion and Irma found Aunt Caroline and At _déjeuner_ Aunt Caroline gave Marion his letters, and Irma "I have been reading up a little to-day," said Marion, "so things are "Where is Marion?" thought Irma, "and why did Uncle Jim and little station, Uncle Jim and Aunt Caroline did not realize Irma''s One never to be forgotten day, Irma, Uncle Jim, and Aunt Caroline went "Did Uncle Jim and Aunt Caroline know?" asked Irma. 39806 And pretty soon after that the bed-time for little girls had come, and Teddy didn''t know it yet, because both Mammas thought Polly would enjoy little happy Polly settled down and was able to eat her breakfast. a Dear Little Couple" that Polly and Teddy were next-door neighbors in the goodest behaving boy your Mamma ever saw!" said Teddy, when he and the dear little couple were growing, and the number of times Teddy put [Illustration: "Teddy''s Mamma had packed his little trunk."] and Teddy were just like you, my dear little girls and boys, and they As Teddy and Polly presently went with Mamma down the grand [Illustration: "Polly and Teddy made friends with the captain''s little were our little couple and Mamma and Papa, and the children were wild street-singers awhile, our little Teddy and Polly went sleepily to bed, Polly''s little golden head ached, and Teddy''s stocking had gotten into a 40394 The heart of an Italian city is to be looked for in its town-house and in our own island, that thorough "church city," where a great minster fronted by a city which hardly comes within the old Venetian land, No city at first sight seems more thoroughly modern; old town and new, that, setting aside the coast cities, the land in which Trieste stands plainest round-arched work, called, as usual, the "old church," the remains of a building, perhaps a church, earlier than the time of No one could surely have placed a church with pointed arches, walls, this certainly looks as if the eastern part were the old city, great church of the city. strange little island city, and in taking in the varied views of land a distinct place in history, islands containing towns and cities, and the long walls to join the haven to the city, only in later times. 42998 pictures of Venice by Venetian masters are chiefly of her pomp and ourselves--canals, palaces, streets, the general appearance of things. fine day in Venice there is a certain brilliant crystalline clearness order to gain some idea of Venice as she was in those early days, it Certainly Venice is the most highly-coloured city in the beautiful things is characteristic of the peasant people of Venice. Venice in the Byzantine period must have been a city of great great work of Venice at this period. did good work in Venice, but on different lines. Upon these pictures the people of Venice live and thrive people of Venice as they were in the days of her power. Think of the makers of St. Mark''s--the great men who worked together Venice was very wealthy at this time, and Venetian people never missed Times were good for the gondoliers when Venice was rich and 43754 in the gate near the old church and convent of San Pietro de yes, we saw Perugia,--a dull old city, without a shop worth looking right side is walled by the church of Santa Maria Nuova, and high The frescoes in Santa Maria infra Portas, a very old church, are As we went along, we saw, outside the door of an old grey house, a example left him two hundred years earlier by Saint Francis of Assisi. We went up the steps in the convent wall, and entered the old church having been brought here from the curious old church at Porta San St. Francis of Assisi was called, and the building of the Lower Church the life and work of Francis Bernardone; it is a house of prayer and the walls of Santa Maria, Francis lived and worked and died. The little church of San Nicola is hidden away among the houses, with 44212 Florence, Rome, Naples, Venice or Milan, and in the larger towns lying history of the great families of the palaces and villas of Rome and most travellers in Italy in these days of the modern railway. Italian days and nights as possible in places little celebrated in wall of progress built up by young liberty-loving Italy since the days road we had ever seen in Italy immediately followed by a like stretch The manners and customs of the Italians of the great cities differ In Rome, in Naples, and in all the cities and large towns of Italy, the T. Garages in Rome, Naples, Genoa, Milan, Florence, Venice, Turin prices, but certainly at Rome and Venice, in the great hotels, it is far The fare of the great Italian cities, at least that of the hotels The quarter where the great hotels are found looks like all towns of 46092 content among the little cities of great memories which stand young world he pictured on the bare white walls of San Francesco; Spoleto with its many little cities starring the green hills, and distant hill-cities riding like ships upon the dim horizon of a below San Pietro, just such a little hill as Pinturicchio loved, towered like lean fortresses on her city wall, with all manner of Like all the hill-cities of Umbria, one of Todi''s chief charms we saw the cities of the Valley of Spoleto rising like stars upon life of the little girl saint of San Gimignano--her vision of St. Gregory, who appeared to her some days before her death and warned spring, with a towered city crowning a hill, and little white Italy, beautiful Ancona, rising like a city of white marble above of some of the most lovely churches standing in the city to-day. 47213 _Prince de Galles_ Hotel in Cannes the other day, when the register was Like Bournemouth, Cannes is rich in pines and poor in shops and cabs. The old town, or _Citta Vecchia_, is built on a hill away from the sea, ROME.--Prince Napoleon, the head of the Bonaparte family and _de Emperor placed great reliance upon Prince Napoleon''s judgment. time, however, Prince Napoleon was traveling in Spitzbergen with his at one time Prince Napoleon was a prominent rival of the Emperor. College, and lives in two rooms looking out over the green old "Quad." Bournemouth is a good long way from London: three hours from Great Park with an old Oxford friend, who had known "Prince Eddie" He will have his place in English History; and the memory of my day at Very little of the Prince''s time is spent in amusing himself. baccarat affair is a good illustration of the way in which the Prince''s 49831 Our road for some distance went over streets laid with the great stones Later in the afternoon, with a turn of the road, we came suddenly in like Lastra, with heavy walls and gates and old archways, and steps hill-tops and by the road were large red-brick farm-houses, instead of In the old days it was always said, "More than her gates, Siena opens brought his patience to an end, and on our way through the town he said foreigners a little of it went a great way. courteous as those men in a certain Italian town who, in days long past, hill-tops before we came to the point where the two roads met. As we came near the town we rode between them, looking It is a long way from the station up the mountain to the town, but we From Assisi to Terni was a long day''s ride by towns and villages, 52619 Ancient Campanile della Pieve, Borgo San Lorenzo 20 thoroughly familiar with the larger cities of Tuscany: Florence, Lucca, Florence, making their way through pretty valleys and hill towns. at the parish church, with its so-called Della Robbia font, and then Duomo--Civil Government and the Church." The façade of the old palace belonging to an old Tuscan family, whose arms are a gold band with centuries of art (though little remains of the earliest church, built these later days, its ancient loggia, church, and castle are fine in first two mediæval walls, for Pistoja, like Florence, has had three Pistoja, of the men who built churches and palaces, and called the The Pistoja of to-day is a prosperous and attractive city with good THE OLD CITY WALL AND MOAT, LUCCA] beautiful, until in half an hour we come upon the little stone church its church, several good Della Robbias, and its fine and beautiful 7373 the best kind of men) and not in a big place but in a little town, their last abrupt escarpment is the wide plain of the river Aar. Now the straight line to Rome ran from where I stood, right across side road, and, a little later, I saw marching on my right, a long way little picture also shows what the gorge looked like as I came down on little way out of the town I crossed a stream off the road, climbed a not know how many miles, till I reached some cross roads and an inn. valley and makes over a little pass for a place called Schangnau. a long straight road for miles at the base of high hills; then, far So he went his way, and I mine, and the last thing he said to me was made up of a church, I went a little way on the short road to San 7380 I have memories of several afternoons spent at a pleasant place near St. James''s Park station, whither I went in search of patriotic employment. "I feel sure a good many men would like to be paid at looking at, a man who had done notable things in his day. time, and be able possibly to discover a vacancy for a public-school man peopled its sunny slopes in long-forgotten days of rustic life--once I happened to know a good deal of that place from an old she-cook of could spend a life-time in a place like this! roused, he seems far too good for a small place like this, where, by the It is good to live in a land where such memories cling to old rocks. like himself, found the world a good place to inhabit. "A good-looking fellow like me--why should I work? 7879 are fresco paintings of sacred subjects, and a beautiful picture covers In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they lights burning at the altar, and it looked very like a Christian church; open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, painting in fresco, looking like a whole heaven of angelic people To-day we went to the Colonna Palace, where we saw some fine pictures, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a 7880 gallery, I think I might come to have some little knowledge of pictures. rest of the face, it has a very queer look,--less like a human eye than a We looked pretty thoroughly through the gallery, and I saw many pictures altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it was pleasant, looking downward into the little old piazza and narrow busts, that look like faces of ancient people gazing down out of the streets of old Siena looked very grim at night, and it seemed like gazing way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day we saw what looked a rough village street, betwixt old houses built 7881 In the first place, he took us through narrow streets to an old church, beautiful pictures by great masters, painted for the places which they open, and we went into a large room on the ground-floor, and, looking up On our way, looking down a cross street, we saw a heavy arch, On our way home, sitting in one of the narrow streets, we saw an old locanda was built of stone, and had what looked like an old Roman altar painted glass I saw in England, and a great wheel window looks like a altar, elevated on four pillars of beautiful marble, is what looks like a old banker, in Roman costume, seated, and looking like a man fit to hold Palace, which looks a little less like a state-prison here, than as it way looked into the old church, which was so dim in the decline of day 8858