THE SKY SCRAPERS OF ROME.
Rodolfo Lanciani. _North American Review_. Vol. clxii, p. 45.

POEM.--Nero's Incendiary Song.
_Poems_. Victor Hugo. P. 31.

POEM.--_Urbs, Roma, Vale_.
_Littell's Living Age_. J.P.M. Vol. cliv, p. 575; vol. clv,
p. 447.
_Blackwood's Magazine_. Vol. cxxxii, pp. 176, 490, 781.




THE ROMAN FORUM

"In many a heap the ground
Heaves, as if Ruin in a frantic mood
Had done its utmost. Here and there appears,
As left to show his handiwork, not ours,
An idle column, a half-buried arch,
A wall of some great temple."
--Rogers


THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE FORUM.
_Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries_. Rodolfo
Lanciani. P. 82.
_A Day in Ancient Rome_. Edgar S. Shumway. Pp. 21, 43.
_The Remains of Ancient Rome_. J.H. Middleton. Vol. i, p. 231.