. Christian herald and signs of our times. W. Life in Ancient Rome. 1 e Proud, Pleasure-loving People of tileIreat Capital — Their Dress, Amuse-lents, and Social Customs. HEN theillustri 0 usroll of thefamouscities of old isreviewed,Rome easilystands at thehead. Athens,J e r u s a levn,Nineveh,eventhe great Bab-ylon itselfwere tame incom pa r i s 0 nwith this im-perial capital,seated on itsseven hills,and,for a timeat least, prac-tically rulingthe whole ofthe knownworld, civil-ized and bar-barian. In theheight of itsiiuiia.\ siA.\DAiti»s. power the Ro- . iKn Empire under Augustus had a popula-

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. Christian herald and signs of our times. W. Life in Ancient Rome. 1 e Proud, Pleasure-loving People of tileIreat Capital — Their Dress, Amuse-lents, and Social Customs. HEN theillustri 0 usroll of thefamouscities of old isreviewed,Rome easilystands at thehead. Athens,J e r u s a levn,Nineveh,eventhe great Bab-ylon itselfwere tame incom pa r i s 0 nwith this im-perial capital,seated on itsseven hills,and,for a timeat least, prac-tically rulingthe whole ofthe knownworld, civil-ized and bar-barian. In theheight of itsiiuiia.\ siA.\DAiti»s. power the Ro- . iKn Empire under Augustus had a popula-jHn of 85,000,000, which in the time of(audiiishad increased to 120,000,000. TheJy on the Tiber had somewhere betweenxx>,ooo and 2,000,000 souls, so that have been as large as New York,3 (en if it did not cover so great an varied society presenteda more complex|:ture than was ever known before, in-nding many different races and nationali-ses. Its splendors were more striking andfposing, its squalor more appalling :

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