POEM.--A Plea for the Classics. EUGENE FIELD.
"There is nothing on the earth, or under it, like Pompeii." --W. D. Howells
POEM.--Pompeii. _Poetical Works_. Mrs. Sigourney. P. 270.
THE CITY OF POMPEII BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION. _The Last Days of Pompeii_. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 89.
THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII. _The Last Days of Pompeii_. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 366.
POEM.--The Earthquake. Whittier's _Complete Poems_. P. 487.
A LETTER FROM PLINY THE YOUNGER TO TACITUS. The Eruption of Vesuvius. Pliny the Younger. _Century_. Vol. lxiv, p. 642. The Eruption of Vesuvius. Translation of Pliny's letter. _Readings in Ancient History_. Hutton Webster. P. 248. A Doomed City. Arranged from Pliny's Letters. _Chautauqua_. Vol. xviii, p. 506.
VESUVIUS, DESTROYER OF CITIES. B.F. Fisher. _Cosmopolitan_. Vol. xxxii, p. 573. _Peeps at Many Lands_. Italy. John Finnemore. Chap. xiv, p. 61.
A DAY IN POMPEII AS DESCRIBED BY SHELLEY. _The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley_. Harry Buxton Forman. Vol. iv, p. 71. _With Shelley in Italy_. Anna B. McMahan. P. 187.
A DAY IN POMPEII AS DESCRIBED BY HOWELLS. _Italian Journeys_. W.D. Howells. Chap. viii.
POEM.--Pompeii. Edgar Fawcett. _Cosmopolitan_. Vol. xxiv, p. 182.
THE INTERIOR OF A POMPEIAN HOUSE. H.G. Huntington. _Cosmopolitan_. Vol. xxiv, p. 521.
A MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN A.D. 79. _Littell's Living Age_. Vol. ccxlii, p. 188.
RECENT EXCAVATIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN POMPEII. John L. Stoddard's _Lectures_. Naples. Vol. viii.
A DAY IN POMPEII AS DESCRIBED BY DICKENS. _Pictures from Italy_. Charles Dickens. P. 164.
PROBING POMPEII. Antonio Sogliano. _Cosmopolitan_. Vol. liii, p. 760.
POEM.--The Eruption of Vesuvius. _Poems_. Victor Hugo. P. 112.
"Yet wears thy Tiber's shore A mournful mien-- Rome, Rome! Thou art no more As thou hast been." --Mrs. Hemans
ROLL CALL. Quotations referring to Rome from Byron's "Childe Harold" or other poems.
THE TOPOGRAPHY OF ROME. _A Day in Ancient Rome_. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 5. _Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero_. W. Warde Fowler. Chap. i. _Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries_. Rodolfo Lanciani. Chap. iv. _Ancient History_. Hutton Webster. P. 631.
ROME: THE ETERNAL CITY. The Eternal City. Lyman Abbott. _Harper's Magazine_. Vol. xliv, p. 1. New Splendors of Old Rome. Dante Vaglieri. _Cosmopolitan_. Vol. lii, p. 440.