the Emperor Constans employed the twelve days in which he stayed at Rome in pillaging her trea sures, and in robbing the Pantheon of its bronze and its silver destined for the new palace of Constantinople; altogether effecting as much ravage in these few days as previous barbarians had done in two centuries and a half. (Fabricius' Description of Rome.)

One great distinction of beauty in this temple I have not yet named.

In its dome is a proportionate circular aperture, twenty-six feet in diameter, open to the heavens, the only light admitted. How striking is this on entering; how sublime the allusion! The pure light, and immediate beams of heaven, unchecked, for ever darting down on the suppliants who are imploring its blessings below! Great Jove, father of Gods and men, was monarch of the air. It is then as though the glances of his eye were ever observant, ever radiating upon the mortals in his temple beneath!

Gods and Spirits are said to melt and mingle in the air: here then the vows, the incense, the adoration offered up might blend, and mix even with their own ethereal, celestial, essence!

The Antonine, and Trajan Columns.-These celebrated pillars very closely resemble each other, but as the former is an humble imitation of the latter, it is not necessary to say more than that it