PAGE CHARCOAL CARRIERS, AMALFI _Frontispiece_ A CAPRIOTE FISHERMAN’S WIFE 16 ROAD NEAR CASTELLAMARE 30 MONTE FAITO, CASTELLAMARE 37 THE FORUM, POMPEII 46 LA CASA DEI VETTII, POMPEII 58 VESUVIUS AND THE BAY OF NAPLES 80 POZZANO 101 EVENING AT AMALFI 124 AMALFI 132 IN THE VALLEY OF THE MILLS, AMALFI 140 AMALFI: PIAZZA AND DUOMO 148 RAVELLO: IL DUOMO 156 A STREET IN RAVELLO 163 MINORI AT SUNSET 170 ON THE ROAD TO RAVELLO 186 THE TEMPLE OF NEPTUNE, PAESTUM 204 AFTERNOON, SORRENTO 230 FARAGLIONI ROCKS, CAPRI 249 CAPRI FROM THE VILLA JOVIS 254 IN THE BLUE GROTTO, CAPRI 262 A GATEWAY, CAPRI 274 ON THE PICCOLA MARINA, CAPRI 288 ISCHIA FROM CASTELLAMARE (SUNSET) 294 ON THE BEACH 306 BIBLIOGRAPHY A small selection out of the books I have consulted during the preparation of this work is given below:— E. GIBBON: _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_. DEAN MERIVALE: _The Romans under the Empire_. _Pliny’s Letters_: (Church’s and Brodribb’s Translation, London, 1897). J. PHILLIPS: _Vesuvius_ (Oxford, 1869). C. RAMAGE: _Nooks and Byways of Italy_. C. LENORMANT: _À Travers la Lucanie et l’Apulie_. W. J. A. STAMER: _Dolce Napoli_ (London, 1878). E. NEVILLE ROLFE: _Naples in 1888_. CONSTANCE GIGLIOLI: _Naples in 1799_. C. L. SISMONDI: _Histoire des __Républiques__ Italiennes_. L. ALBERTI: _Descrizione di tutta l’ Italia_ (Venetia, 1596). C. MILLS: _The Travels of Theodore Ducas_ (London, 1822). _Les Délices d’Italie_ (Paris, 1707). _Nuova Guida de’ Forastieri in Napoli, etc._ (1751). COUNT STOLBERG: _Travels through Italy and Sicily in 1756_. A. H. NORWAY: _Naples, Past and Present_ (London, 1904). E. BUSK: _Folk-Songs of Italy_. J. A. SYMONDS: _Sketches and Studies in Italy_. CATHERINE PHILLIMORE: _Studies in Italian Literature_ (London, 1891). T. A. TROLLOPE: _A Decade of Italian Women_ (London, 1859). G. BOCCACCIO: _Il Decamerone_. A. MAU: _Pompeii: its Life and Art_ (New York, 1899). J. FERGUSSON: _Handbook of Architecture_ (London, 1859). FRANZ VON REBER: _History of Ancient and Mediæval Art_ (New York, 1882).