personification of the Father), and for the Son, and for the Holy Ghost, on either side of him; and all the cardinals having gone through these motions, and the inferior priests having kissed his toe—that is, the cross embroidered on his shoe-high mass begins. The pope kneels during the elevation of the Host, prays in silence before the high altar, gets up and sits down, reads something out of a great book which they bring to him with a lighted taper held beside it (which must be eminently useful in the broad daylight), and having gone through many more such ceremonies, finally ends as he began with giving his benediction with three fingers all the way as he goes out. During all the time of this high mass, the pope's military band, stationed on the platform in front of the church, played so many clamorous martial airs that it would have effectually put to flight any ideas of religious solemnity-if any there had been."

THE BORGHESE PALACE.

Ma quantunque di gloria animi accensi

Faccian splender quaggiù mirabil cose,
Ch' argin segnino al tempo invan tu pensi.
Caggion le solid' opre e le famose.

E pria dell opre, ahi! che al colpir suo grave
Si consuma la man che le compose !

SALOMONE FIORENTINO.

THE palace and villa of the Borghesi are among the most celebrated in Rome. The former was founded by the Cardinal Dezza in the year 1590, and after the plans of the distinguished architect, Martini Lunghi the elder. In extent and magnificence it has the air of an imperial residence, rather than of an edifice belonging to a private family. It is divided into three great apartments, the communication between which is formed by a double gallery, running across the court of the garden. This noble entrance is surrounded by an elegant double portico, supported by a hundred massive granite columns of the Doric and Ionic orders, and ornamented by several statues, of which the most conspicuous are those of Faustina and of an Amazonian. The principal room in the ground floor was formerly filled with one of the largest collections of sculpture, both ancient and modern, to be found in the world; but the present possessor of the palace having married Paulina, sister of the late Emperor of the French, bartered it away to his brother-in-law; and the