POEM.--The Pillar of Trajan.
_Complete Poetical Works_. William Wordsworth. P. 652.

NERO'S GOLDEN HOUSE.
_Rome of To-day and Yesterday_. John Dennie. P. 192.
_Rome: The Eternal City_. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 342.
_The Life of the Greeks and Romans_. Guhl and Koner. P. 369.
_The Golden House of Nero_. J.G. Winter. _Classical Weekly_. Vol.
vii, p. 163.

THE LAPIS NIGER.
_Roma Beata_. Maud Howe. Pp. 163, 260.

POMPEY'S THEATER.
_Rome: The Eternal City_. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, P. 374.
_Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries_. Rodolfo
Lanciani. P. 190.

THE ROMAN FORUM AS IT APPEARS TO-DAY.
_Roman Holidays and Others_. W.D. Howells. P. 96.

POEM.--In the Roman Forum
Amelia Josephine Burr. _Literary Digest_. Vol. xlviii, p. 1130.




THE ROMAN HOUSE

"Here is my religion, here is my race, here are the traces of my