CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

The Tiber in Flood--Typhoid fever in Rome--Florence--A Jew
acquaintance--Drinking in Provence--Buying _bric-a-brac_ with the Jew--the
_carro_ on Easter Eve--Its real Origin--My Jew friend's letters--Italian
_dolce far niente_

CHAPTER II.

THE RIVIERA.

No ill without a counterbalancing advantage--An industry peculiar to
Italy--Italian honesty--Buffalo Bill at Naples--The Prince and the
straw-coloured gloves--The Riviera--A tapestry--Nice--Its flowers--Notre
Dame--The chateau--My gardener--A pension of ugly women--Horses and their
hats--Antibes--Meeting of Honore IV. and Napoleon--The Grimaldis--Lerins,
an Isle of Saints--A family jar--Healed

CHAPTER III.

FREJUS.

The freedman of Pliny--Forum Julii--The Port of Agay--The Port
of Frejus--Roman castle--Aqueduct--The lantern of Augustus--The
cathedral--Cloisters--Boy and dolphin--Story told by Pliny--The _Chains des
Maures_--Desaugiers--Dines with the porkbutchers of Paris--Sieyes--_Sans
phrase_--Agricola--His discoveries