. The Wasp. A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art . rnOia THE CABLE ROAD UP MOUNT VESUVIUS. Pig. i.—Side View of the Oar. Fig, 2.—Appearance ol the Car al. its Ends. 758 THE ILLUSTRATED Neikon as Juliet.—A five and a halfdays epitome, of an individual turbulentphase,of a glowing Italian city of passed awayItaly, is the time of action of the plot ofRomeo and Juliet. The scene is laid in Verona, an ancientcity, whose prowess has at different periodsmade itself felt, not throughout

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. The Wasp. A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art . rnOia THE CABLE ROAD UP MOUNT VESUVIUS. Pig. i.—Side View of the Oar. Fig, 2.—Appearance ol the Car al. its Ends. 758 THE ILLUSTRATED Neikon as Juliet.—A five and a halfdays epitome, of an individual turbulentphase,of a glowing Italian city of passed awayItaly, is the time of action of the plot ofRomeo and Juliet. The scene is laid in Verona, an ancientcity, whose prowess has at different periodsmade itself felt, not throughout Italy only,but throughout the then known civilizedworld. Austrias empire has throbbed withhumiliation at the chastisement inflicted bythe imperiousness of a solitary town, and theSicilies had to conform their rule to the willof the overbearing Veronese. The epoch in which Shakespeare placesthe lives, loves, and deaths of the principalsof this tragedy, was that, when feudalism inthe sunny South was at its hight;when everyhousehold was a power conventional to thewill of a one man rule; and whose indi-vidual wills in combination, swayed empires;wheu every personal grudge, became thequarrel of every member of the family, andat which, every retainer of each party, freelyparticipated;

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