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scholar. In a warm and sheltered nook was Baiae, the most magnificent watering- 
place of the Csesars, and where Cicero, too, had a villa. Now all is ruin, save 
the sunshine, the balmy air and the view of the bay entire. Only a mile along 
the coast and there is Lake Avernus, with a good, honest snjell of sulphur. 
There is the Sibyl's Cave ; there flows the literal Styx. Along this coast many of 
the labors of Hercules were performed. Here was Cumse, which has contributed 
many superb statues to the museum. Here at Puteoli Paul landed and began at 
this terminus of the Appian way his journey to the judgment seat of Nero. Here 
is pointed out the tomb of Virgil, and we need not inquire too closely as to its 
authenticity. Suppose it was built in the sixteenth century, have we not created 
busts of the same old poet 300 years later ? So then we have the atmosphere of 
natural beauty, of antiquity, of sculpture, of poetry, and may descend to the scores 
of enormous halls which hold the remains of this most interesting region. 
Classifying in the order of those topics to which I shall give the least atten- 
tion, we come first to the library. Though not a notable collection, there are 
over 200,000 volumes and 4,000 MSS. Among them are rare MSS. of antique 
date — missals illuminated by the masters, and some rare first editions. After all, 
a library cannot be described and must not be enumerated. One is never able, 
however, to enter one in the old world without finding something curious and 
unique. In this at Naples the chief attraption for the curious traveler is the 
library of Papyri — being some 1,800 rolls of MSS. on papyrus written in Greek. 
They were found in a carbonized state among the ruins of Pompeii. German 
scholars have been engaged years in deciphering them, but with no very valuable 
result. 
Next in order will be the gallery of paintings. In respect of works of the 
old masters it is by no means rich, and yet nearly all are represented by several 
specimens. One must speak of these galleries of pictures relatively. In Italy 
this collection is fifth rate, while the city of London would pay any designated 
sum for it, as with all their wealth the English have been able to obtain no very good 
works of the Italian masters. Napoleon accumulated a large number for the 
Louvre as he was going about Europe on other business. Although there are 
some two thousand pictures here, and among them the usual assortment of 
Raphael's, Correggios, Guides, Carraveggios, and Tintorettos, there is no one 
picture so pre-eminent as to have a world-wide reputation, but were there many 
they could not be depicted here. Only the technical features of a painting can 
be described, and then only to an artist by technical terms. No books are so 
tedious as those which posture and exclaim before the works of the old masters. 
It is very hard in a practical city like this — exclusively utilitarian in its pursuits 
— to understand what a hold art has upon the intelligent people of the old world. 
Not simply nor chiefly that they love to look upon a picture or a statue as mere 
decorative articles cleverly representing interesting subjects. Art is given a high 
place in education. It is made an instructor, historical, technical, archaeological, 
anatomical, mythological. Educated men, in Europe, all know its principles, its 
methods, and its schools. They arrange themselves definitely as the disciples 
