The Queen of the Riviera--The Port of Limpia--Castle Hill-- Promenade des Anglais--The Carnival and Battle of Flowers-- Place Masséna, the center of business--Beauty of the suburbs--The road to Monte Carlo--The quaintly picturesque town of Villefranche--Aspects of Nice and its environs.
In the days of the Doges--Origin of the name--The blue bay of Cannes--Ste. Marguerite and St. Honorat--Historical associations--The Rue L'Antibes--The rock of Monaco--"Nôtre Dame de la Roulette"--From Monte Carlo to Mentone--San Remo--A romantic railway.
Early history--Old fortifications--The rival of Venice-- Changes of twenty-five years--From the parapet of the Corso--The lower town--The Genoese palazzi--Monument to Christopher Columbus--The old Dogana--Memorials in the Campo Santo--The Bay of Spezzia--The Isola Palmeria--Harbor scenes.
Shelley's last months at Lerici--Story of his death--Carrara and its marble quarries--Pisa--Its grand group of ecclesiastical buildings--The cloisters of the Campo Santo-- Napoleon's life on Elba--Origin of the Etruscans--The ruins of Tarquinii--Civita Vecchia, the old port of Rome--Ostia.
Its early days--The Grand Canal and its palaces--Piazza of St. Mark--A Venetian funeral--The long line of islands-- Venetian glass--Torcello, the ancient Altinum--Its two unique churches.
The bleak and barren shores of the Nile Delta--Peculiar shape of the city--Strange and varied picture of Alexandrian street life--The Place Mehemet Ali--Glorious panorama from the Cairo citadel--Pompey's Pillar--The Battle of the Nile-- Discovery of the famous inscribed stone at Rosetta--Port Said and the Suez Canal.
"England's Eye in the Mediterranean"--Vast systems of fortifications--Sentinels and martial music--The Strada Reale of Valletta--Church of St. John--St. Elmo--The Military Hospital, the "very glory of Malta"--Citta Vecchia--Saint Paul and his voyages.
Scylla and Charybdis--Messina, the chief commercial center of Sicily--The magnificent ruins of the Greek Theater at Taormina--Omnipresence of Mt. Etna--Approach to Syracuse-- The famous Latomia del Paradiso--Girgenti, the City of Temples--Railway route to Palermo--Mosaics--Cathedral and Abbey of Monreale--Monte Pellegrino at the hour of sunset.