Corfu. Mouth of the Old Harbor with "Ship of Ulysses" 10 Ithaca. Polis Bay from the North 20 Temple at Stratos 56 Thermon. Temple of Apollo in the Foreground 72 Thermopylæ. From the West 86 Meteora Monasteries 100 Sparta, with Taygetos in the Background 120 The Stygian Pool 130 Theatre at Epidauros 146 Bay of Navarino, with Old Pylos to the Right and Sphakteria to the Left 158 Stone Quarry at Syracuse Called Latomia dei Cappucini 186 So-called Concordia Temple at Girgenti 194 Cattaro 214 Spalato. Palace of Diocletian. South Front 222 Clissa 234 MAP OF SICILY AND DALMATIA 173 MAP OF GREECE _at end of volume_ VACATION DAYS IN GREECE CORFU It is great good fortune to spend a week in Corfu on the way to Greece. Seeing it from one end to the other, wandering through its olive forests and vineyards, brings on a mild, or, in some cases, a wild, intoxication without wine. What words fit the surrounding beauty but "Islands of the Blessed," "Elysium," "Garden of Eden," "Paradise"? It is not Heaven, after all, for one sees here the poor, lame, blind, begging for small alms; but, as long as earth holds such corners as Corfu, it is not all cursed. To the traveller who has felt the intoxication of such a region, and is impelled to report something of it, the impotence of words comes home with special force. Naught but the painter's art seems adequate to report Corfu. And, furthermore, painter as well as poet might here well feel the weakness of his art. It is a great boon to have had this realm of beauty brought upon the retina of the eye, and so communicated to the soul. One may, perhaps, be allowed to group the impressions that Corfu makes, and report them with a plainness that aspires only to the office of a photograph, resigning the attempt at coloring. Before the eye lies one Corfu--the Corfu of to-day; but before the mind are brought two others--the Kerkyra of Greek history and the Scheria of Homer. The two latter compete with the former, and refuse the present beautiful scene a monopoly of attention.