The cloister breathes the very spirit of peace. The white‐marble Doric columns gleam in the sunshine, and cut the tessellated pavement with the black shadows of their shafts, carrying them up the white wall with the arches of intense light between. I can imagine the monks learning to know the exact hour of the day by the fall of those shadows without needing to consult the old clock, also with a glaring white face, which is just below the little belfry with its two bells, one large, one small, that the deep‐ toned toll of one or the sharp, quick tinkle of the other might denote the various offices and duties to which they summoned the inmates. The cloister court is laid out with formal box‐hedges enclosing little plots of garden ground, and one garden more precious than the others, _Gottesacker_,(46) where are sown the mortal remains of the departed brethren, awaiting in the midst of their survivors and successors the day‐ dawn of immortality. There is an iron cross in the centre on a twisted white‐marble pilaster. And the oblong square of this interesting cemetery is surrounded by a white‐marble balustrade, with skulls carved at intervals. In the centre of the court is a marble well of singularly graceful proportions. Around it is a pavement of bricks symmetrically arranged, but now with the blades of grass and tiny weeds intruding their innocent familiarity where they have no right. Statues of saints, vases and balls alternating, run along the entablature of the cloister. We longed for a vision of the old, white‐robed inhabitants of this white marble dwelling; and for once I felt not the lack of color, but, on the contrary, perceived a harmony in the white and subdued gray tints, relieved only by the blue sky and green grass. But when we looked out from the _loggia_ on the wide view beneath us, it was not color that was wanting. There lay Naples, with its motley buildings, backed by purple Vesuvius, and the rose‐colored cliffs of Sorrento beyond. Nature had used all the pigments of her pallet when she painted that lovely scene.