undistinguishably into the architectural design like the many deaths that make up the one glory of a victory. In the side walls of the vaults are niches where skeleton monks sit or stand, clad in the brown habits that they wore in life, and labelled with their names and the dates of their decease. Their skulls (some quite bare, and others still covered with yellow skin and the hair that has known the earth-damps) look out from beneath their hoods, grinning hideously repulsive. One reverend father has his mouth wide open, as if he had died in the midst of a howl of terror and remorse, which perhaps is even now screeching through eternity. As a general thing, however, these frocked and hooded skeletons seem to take a more cheerful view of their position, and try with ghastly smiles to turn it into a jest. There is no disagreeable scent, such as might be expected from the decay of so many holy persons, in whatever odour of sanctity they may have taken their departure. The same number of living monks would not smell half so unexceptionably." Hawthorne gives this graphic description. TABLE OF EGYPTIAN OBELISKS IN ROME. +------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+--------+ | Date of | | | | | | | Erection | Date, and | | Brought | First | Height | | on Present | Erector, |Original | to Rome | Roman | of | | Site. | in Egypt. | Site. | by | Site. | Shaft. | +------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+--------+ | 1. 1786: | B.C. 2074 | .... | Claudius: | Tomb of | 45 ft. | | Piazza | to 1975: | | A.D. 50. | Augus- | | | Monte | Mœris. | | | tus. | | | Cavallo. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2. 1587: | .... | .... | " | " | 48 ft. | | Piazza | | | | | 5 in. | | Esquilino. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3. 1588: | B.C. 1655 | Thebes. | Constan- | Circus |105 ft. | | Piazza | to 1600: | | tius: | Maximus. | 7 in. | | Laterano. | Thothmes | | A.D. 357. | | | | | III. and | | | | | | | IV. | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4. 1589: | B.C. 1487: | Helio- | Augustus: | " | 78 ft. | | Piazza | Seti and | polis. | B.C. 10. | | 6 in. | | del Popolo.| Rameses | | | | | | | II. | | | | |