mansion has altered little since the time of De Comines. The huge ground-floor beyond is the unfinished PAL. VENIER, begun in the eighteenth century. Farther on is the PALAZZO DA MULA, a fine Gothic building of the early fifteenth century, adjacent to which is the PAL. BARBARIGO, with its brazen mosaics, now the property of the Venezia-Murano Glass Co. We pass on, and next to a garden note the PAL. MANZONI (1465) by Tullio Lombardi, somewhat later in style than the Pal. Dario. Passing the Accademia and a few houses, we reach the two PALAZZI CONTARINI DEGLI SCRIGNI (Contarini of the Coffers), the first by Scamozzi (1609), the second fifteenth-century Gothic. The Contarini were a wealthy family pre-eminent in the nobility of their ancestry, and owned many palaces in Venice. The last of the race died in 1902 in lodgings. They had given eight Doges and forty-four Procurators to the Republic. Beyond the rio S. Tomaso is the fifteenth-century Gothic PAL. DURAZZO or dell’ Ambasciatore, once the German Embassy. The two statues on the façade are probably by one of the Lombardi. We pass two rii and reach the imposing PALAZZO REZZONICO, where Robert Browning died. It was built about 1680 by Longhena; the upper storey is, however, a later addition by Massari (1740). We soon come to a magnificent group of three Gothic palaces in the style of the Ducal Palace and attributed to the Buoni. They once belonged to the powerful Giustiniani family, but the last (now the School of Commerce) was bought and enlarged by Francesco Foscari in 1437 and still bears his name. The iron lamp at the corner is modern. Facing us at the farthest corner of the rio Foscari is the PAL. BALBI by Aless. Vittoria (1582). It is now Guggenheim’s shop. We pass on to the rio S. Tomà, at whose farther corner is the PAL. PERSICO (formerly a Giustiniani) in the style of the Lombardi. A few houses beyond is the Gothic PAL. TIEPOLO. Next but one stands the PAL. PISANI, fifteenth-century Gothic. At the farther corner of the rio S. Polo is the PAL. CAPPELLO-LAYARD with a most valuable collection of paintings (admission by personal introduction only). Adjacent is the PAL. GRIMANI of the Lombardi period. Two houses farther on stands the Gothic PAL. BERNARDO, now belonging to Salviati. On either side of the next traghetto (della Madonetta) are two smaller twelfth-century palazzi, with beautiful Byzantine details, the PAL. DONÀ and the PAL. SAIBANTE. Next to a garden is the sixteenth-century Renaissance PAL. PAPADOPOLI (formerly Tiepolo), surmounted by two obelisks. At the farther corner of the rio stands the PAL. BUSINELLI with some interesting Byzantine windows. Next but one is the PAL. MENGALDO, referred to in the “Stones of Venice” as the “terraced house.” It has a beautiful Byzantine portal, and arches of the same style are visible in the older part of the building. Just beyond the S. Silvestre Pier is the site of the old palace of the Patriarchs of Grado and Venice. Little of interest meets