The Custom House.--The Fortifications and the Gates,--The Roman Highways.--The Cemetery of Pompeii.--Funerals: the Procession, the funeral Pyre, the Day of the Dead.--The Tombs and their Inscriptions.--Perpetual Leases.--Burial of the Rich, of Animals, and of the Poor.--The Villas of Diomed and Cicero. 93 V. THE THERMÆ. The Hot Baths at Rome.--The Thermæ of Stabiæ.--A Tilt at Sun Dials.--A Complete Bath, as the Ancients Considered It: the Apartments, the Slaves, the Unguents, the Strigillæ.--A Saying of the Emperor Hadrian.--The Baths for Women.--The Reading Room.--The Roman Newspaper.--The Heating-Apparatus. 120 VI. THE DWELLINGS. Paratus and Pansa.--The Atrium and the Peristyle.--The Dwelling Refurnished and Repeopled.--The Slaves, the Kitchen, and the Table.--The Morning Occupations of a Pompeian.--The Toilet of a Pompeian Lady.--A Citizen Supper: the Courses, the Guests.--The Homes of the Poor, and the Palaces of Rome. 135 VII. ART IN POMPEII. The Homes of the Wealthy.--The Triangular Forum and the Temples.--Pompeian Architecture: Its Merits and its Defects.--The Artists of the Little City.--The Paintings here.--Landscapes, Figures, Rope-dancers, Dancing-girls, Centaurs, Gods, Heroes, the Iliad Illustrated.--Mosaics.--Statues and Statuettes.--Jewelry.--Carved Glass.--Art and Life. 167 VIII. THE THEATRES. The Arrangement of the Places of Amusement.--Entrance Tickets.--The Velarium, the Orchestra, the Stage.--The Odeon.--The Holconii.--The Side Scenes, the Masks.--The Atellan Farces.--The Mimes.--Jugglers, etc.--A Remark of Cicero on the Melodramas.--The Barrack of the Gladiators.--Scratched Inscriptions, Instruments of Torture.--The Pompeian Gladiators.--The Amphitheatre: Hunts, Combats, Butcheries, etc. 199 IX. THE ERUPTION. The Deluge of Ashes.--The Deluge of Fire.--The Flight of the Pompeians.--The Preoccupations of the Pompeian Women.--The Victims: the Family of Diomed; the Sentinel; the Woman Walled up in a Tomb; the Priest of Isis; the Lovers clinging together, etc.--The Skeletons.--The Dead Bodies moulded by Vesuvius. 232 DIALOGUE. (IN A BOOKSTORE AT NAPLES.) A TRAVELLER (_entering_).--Have you any work on Pompeii? THE SALESMAN.--Yes; we have several. Here, for instance, is Bulwer's "Last Days of Pompeii." TRAVELLER.--Too thoroughly romantic. SALESMAN.--Well, here are the folios of Mazois. TRAVELLER.--Too heavy. SALESMAN.--Here's Dumas's "Corricolo." TRAVELLER.--Too light. SALESMAN.--How would Nicolini's magnificent work suit you? TRAVELLER.--Oh! that's too dear. SALESMAN.--Here's Commander Aloë's "Guide." TRAVELLER.--That's too dry. SALESMAN.--Neither dry, nor romantic, nor light, nor heavy! What, then, would you have, sir?