The National Magazine (New Series) November 1887 a Monthly Review

It comprised the Law Courts and the Exchange of ancient Rome and the pavement and the bases of the long lines of columns arc all that remain of it. [...] From the top of the Palatine Hill are seen like the vast ramparts of a fortified town the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla ! Next only to the Colosseum these baths arc the most gigantic ruins of Ancient Rome and even the Colosseum itself scarcely strikes one more than the vastness of these baths which occupy of 140 000 yards! The Romans came here not for bathing only but to see races and sport [...] The richly gi4 ceiling the fine mosaics of the apse and the splendour of the chapels of Sextus V. and the Pauline chapel charm the beholder as he enters this magnificent edifice. [...] Several sittings took place in which the objections of the Duke of York as proprietor of a large tract of land in the neighbourhood of that which was the object of the petition and those of Lord Baltimore as proprietor of Maryland were fully heard and debated. [...] The aforesaid case is still before the Court of Appeal and it is not mentioned in the reference now before us what is the special hardship or hardships of the case which would justify the upsetting the marriage institutions of the whole country because as I shall show further on that would be the effect of the measures which foreshadowed in the letter of Mr.