“We can emphatically declare that it is brilliant, suggestive, original, and interesting from the first chapter to the last.”-- Saturday Review. “A volume which will take high rank amongst the many works which have for their special object to recall Rome to those who have seen it, and to give some notion of its many attractions to those who have been denied that privilege.”-- Glasgow Herald. CONSTANTINOPLE, PAINTED BY WARWICK GOBLE    ·    DESCRIBED BY   ALEXANDER   VAN MILLINGEN,  M.A.,  D.D. P

The foundation of Constantinople was an event of the utmost political significance. That personal feelings actuated Constantine the Great in the decision to establish a seat of government far from the walls of Rome is doubtless true. The insults to which he was exposed, on the occasion of his visit to the ancient capital of the Empire, in 326, on account of the execution of his wife and of his son, could not fail to annoy him, and make him willing to shake the dust of the rude city from off his