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expedition. A few minutes of contemplation is advisablo, unless the travellor la rushing through ROME'S ATTRACTIONS.
like Alarie, bent on sacking Rome One. of the
comparatively in three days. popular and well-written historics But for the average tourist con- of Rome appends a bibliography templation" is perhaps moro pro- of historical works by thirty-eight fitable than crowded stupefaction, different authors. This reference that guide-book blindness to the list
standard essential beauties of Rome. It is mentions such volumes as Gregorovius, Momm-important to see St. Peter's, the sen, Gibbon, Milman, along with Vatican, the Coliseum, the old Zola and Benvenuto Cellini. It Forum, the sunset from the does not attempt to present the Pincian Hill Terrace, the four
MAN AT HIS BEST.
experience, are usually those of the greatest intellectual output. Neither is man at forty so In- flexible as to make him unsuited for marriage, despite the populac theory.
FASCIST OUTRAGE.
WHAT IS BEST, AGE?
JUGO-SLAVS. SUSPICIOUS.
There was much talk during the
Belgrade, Nov. 9.--The Fascist. Great War of the necessity of The Achievements of "Old Men." outrage against the offices of the Macaulay once said that "of all Slovenian newspaper, Edinost, in clouring out the old men, and giving the young men a chance good books now extant in the Trieste, which was demolished to show what they could do in world,
nineteen- and burned. by Italian Fasclats. positions of responsibility, writes twentiethe were published after Friday, created intense bitterness And in the writers had attained the age and disquietude throughout Jugo Mr. C. Boyd Bowman.
more than
fact, many brilliant young men of forty." Even among the poots, Slavia
long list of classical writers, such main basilicus, the Palatine Hill, did distinguish themselves in who frequently show a surprising- Foreign Minister Ninchich had hard time trying to assure Interesting deputies of the opposition parties
All
"The
as the newspaper.
(as Sallust nud Livy, and It avoids the Capital Museum and the ways which were opened to them ly early development of their
reference to ecclesiastical offer-National Museum, which is in the by reason of this outcry against powers, there are ings which might plunge the baths of Diocletian. Many other the alleged inefficiency of age. examples of the pinnacle of their that he would be in a position to student into a lifetime of Latin points like Hadrian's Tomb and But a sober, scientific examina- genius being reached well after give a reassuring answer on the manuscript research.
the obelisks may be scen en route.tion of the facts of history does farty.
Milton did not complete outrages, He had to admit, bow- The volumes of historical works But by all means, when dates not show that the young man is his "Paradise Lost" until he was ever, there had been in Fascist
That must be a fifty-seven. Pope wrote on Rome in English, French, and emperors and popes begin to man at his best.
the demonstration against the Jugo. hatian and German would almost swim bazily about in the over-trath exceedingly annoying to the Eassy of Man when he was Slay Consulate in Trieste, as well
average-size Carnegie worked memory, take a little blue "League of Youth" and kindred forty-five: Cowper his "Task" at
the organizations which have
Wordsworth for forty-uine, library in America. The standard cloth-covered table under works more or less corroborate arcade of the Pjazza dell'Esedra, their object the spread of the Excursion" at forty-four. feach other, and the leaser volumes order lee cream, vermouth or dominion of youth, but it is never-died when fifty-one leaving the a
"Aeneid" abundantly
unfinished; are generally.condensed rewrites orangeade, or even a whisky and theleas
Donte's proved. of the others, although the subject] soda, and reflect on the beauty of There
"Divine Comedy" was only written -are of course many of Rome is exhaustless, And it the piazza. It is cool in the great instances of extraordinary young when he was nearly fifty.
Behind the Tricate episode is in because the eple drama of Rome arched arcade, and if the plazza people who attain to prodigious And so one might go on, proving
seen a growing desire of Italy to is staged over such a period of is hot there is a splendid sportive wisdom and to marvellous necom-in incontrovertible fashion that get involved with Jugo Slavia in. The earth's time, with such pro- fountain in the middle of the plishments at a very tender age. the "old men" are the greatest military seizure of the Dalmatian aome way which would justify perties and such characters, that broad stony piazza-the fountain Such phenomena are known as creditors of mankind. However, the visitor feely a sense of be of the mainds, and the last papal Infant prodigies.
And there are it is not only in literature, as heightened by Premier Mussolini's coast, an impression that has been wilderment and forthwith rushes gift to Rome before 1870 and the still larger number of examples might be supposed, that this is rattling of the auber in his recent of men whose' supreme work was
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ralirement to the Vatican
Virgil A crowd of angry Serbs started demonstration against the Halian Consulate in Ljubljana but was dispersed by the police.
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To any visitor who would seek
The sculpte Rutelli has done performed in carly manhood. true. The famous Cromwell had utterances. the truth, in defiance to the much to compensate Reme for the The Macedonian conqueror won no experience whatever of fight-
Jugo Slavia and Italy have sign- natural prejudice and superstition loss of the Diocletian baths.is vast empire in the dozen years and obvious falsehood of historical Here is a real fountain, with in-between 21 and 35, for Alexandering until he was forty. At fiftyed a friendship treaty, but this dreamers, the history of Rome dolent, frolicsome nainds, with was only 33 when he died of that he was the most renowned general has falled to quiet, Jugo Slavian suspicion that the Italians are becomes a mania. And when this senhorses, dolphins and a great world Kents wor immortal fame position of Lord Protector, heat the first suitable moment.
fever in Babylon. In another in Europe; at fifty-four, in the getting ready to invade Dalmatia dignified Romin chronicle, which j
uproar of kicking, splashing might read honestly enough, comes water. It is cool to look at it before his death at 26. in contact with conflicting authoriserms to be fed by an ocean
Despised Middle Age. ties, it is apparent that some his-pressing upward underneath the torian along the line, pagan or main jet, instead of by the springs But as a matter of hard fact Christian, has not been telling the of Quintus Marcius Rex, which the it is the middle years of a man's truth. And so the reader had guidebook says are thirty-six miles life that see his powers at their best stick to Gibbon, to the Ger-away, at Tivoli. It is the finest zenith. And, furthermore, it is did he perform his 'tour de force' man Gregorovius, to Livy, who fountain, in Rome, because its far more frequent for a man to of writing The Messiah in three wrote as if he had access to the whole idea is one of rioting, be at the height of his powers weeka. lending Government newspapers reveling abundance. Its joyous when he is old than when he la
was the virtual dictator of EU land. Handel was no exceptional musician until he was over forty, and not until he was fifty-seven
encouraged the Greeks to invade suggested that Italy
Bulgaria, in the hope it would lead to Jugo Slavian interference, which then would be used as a prbtext for the seizure of Dalmatia.
Belgrade oficialdom is keeping cool and the Foreign Office is busy
of antiquity, if there had been naiads have been sternly criticized young. Too old nt forty, may be An old boy' is not necessary in explaining that the Fascist attacks
After
in Trieste are no now phenomenon
volved and that they never before in-
the Governmenta
quarrels.
in
newspapers, to Tacitus and for their indecorous attitudes. Plutarch and Suetonius. It might Those are the kind of critics who another age-old maxim it has only as long as he remains a boy,' he a popular ery, but like many his second childhood. In fact, be a good ide for some fearless, would go across the piazza into a mythological foundation. muckraking scholar to write the National Museum, just inside forty the intellect is not ripe for will, like a boy, always be grow history of the historians them the ruins of the Diocletian baths, decay, but in most cases is ripe ing up, but never growing really selves, giving all the palace and have a cast-iron bathrobe for further development.
Fortold, scandal,
fitted over the Greek master-piece is not the beginning of the decline worshipped by sculptors as the of mental powers, but the herald No, senile decay does not begin preparations by italy for a new Venus of Cirene.
of years which mellowed by at forty, nor even sixty!
The Piazza dell'Esedra in Rome is most likely to evoke just such historical turmoil in the mind of the new arrival, because the piazza is the first monumental spot one sees from the railroad station. With a guide book in hand, or with a map history of Rome, one might stand in the centre of this rather beautiful place and fade into a sort of erystal-gazing attitude and watch the centuries parade. by. And they would parade by in the utmost confusion, This Piazza dell'Esedra is one of the most interesting, one of the most imposing, one of the most important, and one of the most
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of Rome. It is the foreigner's introduation to Rome, after the complicated railrond station bar- rier has been accomplished. The piazza in front of the railroad station is really a part of this leading piazza because the whole arca about the high and central pertion of Rome belongs properly to the spacious Baths of Diocle- Tian. And so the piazza is also called the Piazza delle Terme, after the thermal station which the plebían emperor gave to the people. The word Esedra pre- sumably comes from the Latin} exedra, which described the great semicircular apse that was in front of this side of Diocletian's bath."
The high Roman brick walls, rising in majestie arches and broken domes, stand firm above the clatter and noise of the piazza, {
d the exedra, or semi-circle, is preserved nobly in the Identical. dimensions, except that the curved
sides framing this piazza -are formed by two ares of modern travertine buildings, with high arendes along the street level, where the populace amuses itself in cafes, restaurants, bars, shops, and motion-picture theatres.
Running off this plazza, perpen- dicular to the ruins, of the baths,] splitting the semicircle in 'two, is the Via Nazionale, which cuts a sheer line into the heart of Rome to the centre of the old town, the Piazza Venezia, over which pre- sidea in towering whiteness the marble monument to Victor Emmanuel, and where begins the old narrow Corso Umberto," with its balconies, its palaces, cafes, tablets, atores and banke.
The Piazza dell'Esedra is a good ample piazza from which to start one's ramble about Rome, and it is wido and airy enough to permit An exasperated traveller to collect his historic thoughts and decide' whether he will run wild with n guidebook of first read a short, comprehensive, ungarnished tale of Rome and organize his own
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