Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and spaced text by =equal signs=. In the ads, an = sign denotes bold text. On page 431, 1854 should possibly be 1845. On page 533, the page number referenced is missing on the first Chapter XXXV citation. On page 544, the pages listed as pp 226-223 are possibly a typo. [=HS] represents the characters HS with a bar over the top. [*] represents the Roman Denarius sign: 𐆖. [E] represents the Roman symbol for 2 oz., two stacked "c"s. ∞ represents the Roman numeral 1000, usually represented as ↀ. \B and \F represent VB and VF ligatures. In Figure 54 and the subsequent text, letters indicated by ~A~ represent small capital letters. POMPEII ITS LIFE AND ART [Illustration: PLATE I.--VIEW OF THE FORUM, LOOKING TOWARD VESUVIUS] POMPEII ITS LIFE AND ART BY AUGUST MAU GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE IN ROME Translated into English BY FRANCIS W. KELSEY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS_ NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1902 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1902, BY FRANCIS W. KELSEY. First Edition, October, 1899. New Revised Edition, with additions, November, 1902. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION For twenty-five years Professor Mau has devoted himself to the study of Pompeii, spending his summers among the ruins and his winters in Rome, working up the new material. He holds a unique place among the scholars who have given attention to Pompeian antiquities, and his contributions to the literature of the subject have been numerous in both German and Italian. The present volume, however, is not a translation of one previously issued, but a new work first published in English, the liberality of the publishers having made it possible to secure assistance for the preparation of certain restorations and other drawings which Professor Mau desired to have made as illustrating his interpretation of the ruins.