Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . rmark of my enthusiasm. The wonder and beauty of Italy later broughthealing and some relief to the paralyzing sense ofthe futility of all artistic and intellectual eifort when disconnectedfrom the ultimate testof the conduct it in-spired. The sereneand soothing touch ofhistory also arousedold enthusiasms, al-though some of theirmanifestations weresuch as one smiles over-- — ~^ . IT^ more easily in retro- spection than at themoment. I fancy that it was no smiling matterto several people in our party, whom I inducedto walk for three miles
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes . rmark of my enthusiasm. The wonder and beauty of Italy later broughthealing and some relief to the paralyzing sense ofthe futility of all artistic and intellectual eifort when disconnectedfrom the ultimate testof the conduct it in-spired. The sereneand soothing touch ofhistory also arousedold enthusiasms, al-though some of theirmanifestations weresuch as one smiles over-- — ~^ . IT^ more easily in retro- spection than at themoment. I fancy that it was no smiling matterto several people in our party, whom I inducedto walk for three miles in the hot sunshine beatingdown upon the Roman Campagna, that we mightenter the Eternal City on foot through the Portadel Popolo, as pilgrims had done for be sure, we had really entered Rome the nightbefore, but the railroad station and the hotel mighthave been anywhere else, and we had been drivenbeyond the walls after breakfast and stranded atthe very spot where the pilgrims always said EccoRoma, as they caught the first glimpse of THE SNARE OF PREPARATION ^^ Peters dome. This melodramatic entrance intoRome, or rather pretended entrance, was the pre-lude to days of enchantment, and I returned toEurope two years later in order to spend a winterthere and to carry out a great desire to systemati-cally study the Catacombs. In spite of my dis-trust of advantages I was apparently not yetso cured but that I wanted more of them. The two years which elapsed before I againfound myself in Europe brought their inevitablechanges. Family arrangements had so come aboutthat I had spent three or four months of each of theintervening winters in Baltimore, where I seemedto have reached the nadir of my nervous depres-sion and sense of maladjustment, in spite of myinterest in the fascinating lectures given there byLanciani of Rome, and a definite course of readingunder the guidance of a Johns Hopkins lecturerupon the United Italy movement. In the latterI naturally encountered
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