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This article presents experience of the editor of this article in Pompeii. The article describes that Pompeii is so full of marvel and surprise, that it would be unreasonable to express disappointment with Pompeii in fiction. The real Pompeii is different. It is seldom that any wall is unbroken; most columns are fragmentary; and though the ground plans are always distinct, very few rooms in the city are perfect in form, and the whole is much more ruinous. But this ruin once granted, and the idle disappointment at its greatness overcome, there is endless material for study, instruction and delight.

A curious anomaly, in the inrush of Fascist anomalies whereby Italy is being inundated every day, is that the new plan of municipal reform places Rome on the same level as the small municipalities which have a population of not more than 5,000. Except for Rome, the recent legislation does not touch the municipalities that have a population of over 5,000. These will continue to be governed by an elected council and a mayor, or syndic, chosen from the councilors. But all municipalities that have only 5,000 inhabitants or less are henceforward deprived of all civic rights.

This article presents the author's touring experience on Italy. The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning. Outside the villages there were fields with vines. The fields were brown and the vines coarse and thick. The houses were white and in the streets the men, in their Sunday clothes, were playing bowls. Against the walls of some of the houses there were pear trees, their branches candelabra d against the white walls. The pear trees had been sprayed, and the walls of the houses were stained a metallic blue-green by the spray vapor. The woods were gone; the road had left the river to climb; the radiator was boiling; the young man looked annoyedly and suspiciously at the steam and rusty water; the engine was grinding, with both Guy's feet on the first speed pedal, up and up, back and forth and up, and finally out level.

Presents news briefs from around the world. Information on the situation between Great Britain and Italy; Description of the convention of the Socialist Party in the U.S. which rejected joint political action with the Communists in the election campaign; Impact of Ethiopian war on relations between Great Britain and Italy; Significance of American railways to traveling public by consolidated use of terminal and other facilities; Report that Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional the law permitting municipalities to go into bankruptcy and regulating the process; Effects of industrial unionism in steel and automobile industries; Information on activities of the organization American Legion; Benefits of Polaroid, trade name for a substance just now emerging from scientific laboratories.

This article presents information regarding the book "Cavalleria Rusticana, and Other Sicilian Peasant Tales," by Giovanni Verga. This work gives a very fair specimen of Verga's aims, method, and style, it is a perfect picture of Sicilian life in the fishing villages of the province of Catania, which mostly begin with Aci, Aci Reale being the district in 1892. The shore was covered with artists painting the huge rocky needles which serve as bulwarks to the tiny bay full of fishing boats, and, as one does in Scotland among the scenes where Wailer Scott has laid his stories, one wants about trying to find the originals of Verga's humble folk.

The author appreciates the letters written upon the literary and archeological and political conditions of Italy and presents several points that may be instructive to thinkers upon the commercial future of the United States abroad. He mentions about the Italian representation of several large American woodenware manufacturers in places like Genoa and Naples. The author further provides some precise reasons for the German monopoly in the business area of hardware and woodenware in various cities of Italy.

The article focuses on the city of Turin in Italy which owes its faithfulness to Roman antiquity. By a curious coincidence one can pass directly from the office of the Department of Ancient Monuments, by narrow subterranean stairs and passages, among the substructures of the medieval Palazzo Madama, to the considerable remains of the principal gateway of the Augustan City, the Porta Praetoria, over and around which the mediaeval dukes of Savoy built their castle and palace. According to the author, the general plan of Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was to establish separate groups of two fortified cities in connection with each of the main Alpine passes.

Comments on the restoration, transformation, city planning and relevant political developments in Rome, Italy. Prevalence of riots and barricades; Details and implications of the riots of 1848; Public finance for their restoration; Indications of history and politics.

There are some passages from an autobiographical sketch given by a young and quite unknown poet whose career is one of the most interesting, the author has heard about in a long time. Pascal D'Angelo was born, he says, near the old walled city of Sulmona, Italy. It is a small town in the beautiful valley that was once the stronghold of the Samnites, walled in by the great blue barrens of Monte Majella. Few roads run to this quiet land and ancient traditions have never entirely died out there. Below the town is the garden of Ovid with its wild roses and cool springs, and above is an ancient castle that in summer is fantastically crowned with the mingling flight of pigeons which take care of their young on its towered heights.

When the Campanile fell in Venice last summer, a loud outcry of indignation was heard in London and Young Italy was warned that, if it could not preserve its own great monuments, the rest of the civilized world would have to step in and take them in charge. Mansions still survive here and there in the country to testify to the genius of architect Robert Adam. He is also to be studied in some of the spacious houses of Portland Place, familiar to every American who stops at the Laugham Hotel. Indeed, it is the growing extravagance in municipal government that is so discouraging. The Borough Councils, in the first flush of their new power, are even more reckless than the County Council.