ities of the excavated City of Pompeii and its treasures in
the Museum of Naples, where we were furnished with an intelligent
guide and permitted to spend days in our researches. To each and all
of these, who have so kindly promoted our labor, our heartfelt thanks
are cordially returned.

Many of the engravings are from drawings made on the spot, but a
greater number are from photographs, and executed with the greatest
fidelity by German and French artists.

Steel Plate Engravings.

PAGE

_The Palace of the Caesars_, 1

_House of the Tragic Poet--Sallust_, 112

_Egyptian Feast_, 270

_Approach to Karnac_, 384

_Temple of Karnac_, 470

_The Philae Islands_, 656

_School of the Vestal Virgins_, 832

CONTENTS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

POMPEII.

The Glory of the City--Destruction--Excavation--_Entering
Pompeii_ (_Page 21-25_)--The Streets of the City--The
Theatres of Pompeii--Villa of Julia Felix--Pavements and
Sidewalks--_Arrangement of Private Houses_ (_Page 26-53_)--
Elegance of Domestic Architecture--Ground Plan of Roman
House--Exterior Apartments--Interior Apartments--Dining
Halls--The Triclinium--Materials and Construction--The
Salve Lucru--Paintings and Decorations--The Drunken Hercules--
Wall Decoration--The Peristyle--The House of Siricus--Political
Inscriptions--Electioneering Advertisements--The Graffiti--
Street of the Lupanar--Eighty Loaves of Bread Found--The
House of the Balcony--Human Bodies Preserved--Discovered
Bodies--_House of Diomedes_ (_Page 54-74_)--Location of the
Villa--Ground Plan of the Villa--Detail of Ground Plan--The
Caldarium--Galleries and Halls--Porticoes and Terraces--Tomb
and Family Sepulchre--The Villa Destroyed--Conclusive
Evidence--Jewels and Ornaments--Pliny's Account of a Roman
Garden--_Stores and Eating Houses_ (_Page 75-81_)--Restaurant--
Pompeian Bill of Fare--Circe, Daughter of the Sun--_Houses of
Pansa and Sallust_ (_Page 82-102_)--Curious Religious Painting--
General View of House--Worship of the Lares--Domesticated
Serpents--Discoveries Confirm Ancient A