Tarrt can be few schoolboys having imbibed a moderate quantity of Latin who have not had to make their way through the "Journey to Brundisium." The Appian Way has changed, of course, since Horace, Virgil and Maecenas travelled along it. Here and there the route has Leen altered to avoid an owk hill. The old paving has disappeared, or exists but in isolated patches, beside the present road, in a very broken and grass-grown condition. But the Appian Way is still a noble thoroughfare, and in point of history certainly the most famous i1 the world. Arricia, in the Alban Hills, still receives the traveller leaving Rome—Arricia famous for beautiful girls for whom Horace would have had an appre-dative eye. Then, by way of Genzano of wine-growing celebrity, and by Velletri, the road leads down. over gentle undulations into the bleak Pontine Marshes, across which it runs as straight as an arrow for' nearly forty miles to Terracina, Appi Forum and the Three Taverns are passed on the way, although the places where St. Paul met his friends are now considered by archeologists to have been situated quite differently from those that bear their names to-day. From Terracina the road continues to Fondi, better known in Papal than io Roman times as being practically' on the boundary between the Neapolitan and Papal states; and to Formia, near which Cicero had a villa, still easily traceable. Thence the Appian Way leads to Capua and Naples, and. across the mot tains of southern Italy to Brindisi and wherever there is a culvert or a bridge it is worth while to look out for traces of the ancient Roman stonework which still stands firm in all its solidity. For the present, however, the part of the Appian 'Way which occupies our attention lies nearer Rome, the part that' Signor Nathan and his progressive municipal councillors propose to convert into a modern " Haussganized" boulevard with electric trams and beer-gardens.
During his three years, or thére-abouts, of office as Mayor of Rome Signor Nathan his succeeded in making himself so conspicuous that award or two will be enough to
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