"The seeds of godlike power are in us still;
Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!"
--Matthew Arnold
POEM.--The Watch of the Old Gods.
POVERTY AMONG THE ANCIENT ROMANS.
_Society in Rome under the Caesars_. William Ralph Inge. Chap. iii.
_The Private Life of the Romans_. H.W. Johnston. P. 305.
_The Ancient City_. Fustel De Coulanges. P. 449.
POVERTY AMONG THE AMERICANS.
The Problem of Poverty. Robert Hunter. _Outlook_. Vol. lxxix,
p. 902.
The Weary World of Human Misery. _World's Work_. Vol. xvi,
p. 10526.
_How the Other Half Lives_. Jacob Riis. Chap. xxii, p. 255.
THE CRAZE FOR AMUSEMENT AMONG THE ANCIENT ROMANS.
_Society in Rome under the Caesars_. William Ralph Inge. Chap. ix.
_Readings in Ancient History_. Rome and the West. William Stearns
Davis. P. 194.
THE CRAZE FOR AMUSEMENT AMONG THE AMERICANS.
What New York spends at the Theaters. _Literary Digest_. Vol. xlv,
p. 19.
LUXURY AND EXTRAVAGANCE IN ANCIENT ROME.
_Rome: The Eternal City_. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, pp. 524,
529.
_Society in Rome under the Caesars_. William Ralph Inge. P. 262.
_Readings in Ancient History_. Rome and the West. William Stearns
Davis. P. 305.
LUXURY AND EXTRAVAGANCE AMONG AMERICANS.
Newport: The City of Luxury. Jonathan T. Lincoln. _Atlantic
Monthly_. Vol. cii, p. 162.
Housekeeping on Half-a-million a Year. Emily Harington.
_Everybody's_. Vol. xiv, p. 497.
_The Passing of the Idle Rich_. Frederick Townsend Martin. Chap.
ii, p. 23.
POEM.--_Tempora Mutantur_.
_Poetical Works_. John G. Saxe. P. 98.
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