A Critic in Pall Mall

There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome--tall snakelike spires of red sandstone mottled with strange writings which remind us of the pillars of flame which led the children of Israel through the desert away from the land of the Pharaohs; but more wonderful than these to look upon is this gaunt wedge-shaped pyramid standing here in this Italian city unshattered amid the ruins and wrecks of time looking older than the Eternal City itself like terrible impassiveness turned to stone.