The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.

At Eome our-hero stayed some time , jmd made the acquaintance of some of those " classic friends" Avho Avere so iircatly to influence his after career , and to whom I shall venture , in due course , to introduce my readers . Eome has , and it must haveattractions

, for ah who think . Some there still are to Avhom as a " daisy is only a daisy , ancl nothing more , " so Eome—is only Eome , to be clone with a "Cicerone , " to be looked at in the light of this busy , noisy , peddling nineteenth century . But to most

Eome speaks happily Avith a A'oice of grateful interest , from out a " mighty past . " It is surrounded with imperishable " souvenirs , " it is associated Avith much that is very grand , A'ery heroic— -if also very tragic and very dismal , not to

say degrading , in the history of the ¦ world . It takes us back to its old Roman grandeur , to its historic worthies , mighty citizens of Time ; Eegulus and Numa , Pompilius , Cicero , and Cato , Scipio and Lu y , Pompey and Julius Caisar , Augustus and Titus , Trajan and Constantino , Virgil and Horace , aud Tacitus and Juvenal , and then it links us on to those AA'ondrous

annals which tell of Christianity , and ivhich speak so full of reality and tenderness to the serious student of to-day . And further there conies hi its purely papal history , Avhich throAvs such Avondrous light alike . on the Avaves of civilization , the struggles of reliionthe passions and

g , pettiness of men . . Must Ave not add , alas ! that Eome ever Avitnesses , of that darker side Avhich Aveakens religion in the eyes of the man of letters and science , which lends strength to scepticism and offers Aveapons to unbelief ?

But stiH Eome is classic ground , for all these reasons and many more , and if the " Niobo of Nations , " it still has a great share in the interest and sympathy of the world . Eome is full of charms to those in Avhom imagination and intellect

hai-e not been deadened by the more active materialism of the day , those ' 0 Avhom all the romance and chivalry aud poesy of life are not idle tales or unmeaning symbolism . ' Eome is still . Rome , despite the episodes ol the past , the changes of the present , ancl always must Preserve a freshness and a meaning on account of its ancient history , Avhich ,

except Jerusalem , is possessed by no other city upon earth . Many other mighty aggregations of men have no doubt Avondrous attractions and associations for us all alike . Paris specially speaks to the appreciativeto the

, citizen of the Avorld , Avith a poAver and keen admiration Avhich few others can equal , and Ave all of us can probably recall in some form or other special attributes and prevailing memories which Eome , London , or A ^ ienna , Berlin or' St .

Petersburg , Naples or Venice , Stockholm or Copenhagen , Brussels or Constantinople —yes , and many other historic localitieshave for us , I say , deeply imprinted on our hearts and souvenirs with the records of affection of friendlinessof

, culture , of happiness . For man , who is a " gregarious animal , ' is ever characterized here by all those graceful emotions , and all those gratifying sensibilities ivhich seem to tell us IIOAV the Great Architect

of the Universe has implanted in us all alike those inner yearnings ancl those intense companionships which are not only for time , but eternity . But I have Avandered far from my story ! At Eome , Paesiello , AVIIO Avas lodged in

rooms which once had been the habitation of a prince , found everything to deli ght the imagination aud to ' refresh the mind . Ho mused in the Coliseum , and became reverential in St . Peter ' s ; he wandered through the Vatican , and was " Civis

Eomanus " in the Forum . Ancl if Eome above ground had tho deepest interest for him , alike in the names it recalled and the episodes it summoned up , his piety ancl fervour Avere Avarmecl and excited in "Soma Soterranea , " among those wondrous

catacombs Avhich so silently yet solemnly attest the faith and sufferings of the earl y Christian—that victory which overcame the world . It Avas in Eome that Paesiello made the acquaintance of the Abbe Bartolo , a

learned and tolerant ecclesiastic , and of the amiable family of the Allegri , which consisted of their still stately '' madre " ancl two blooming daughters , in all the grace ancl fascination of early youth . Here it AVHS , too , that he became , for his happiness , the friend and companion of Count Stanelli , a young Venetian , and