Rome's Life Over Again.—A recent number of the London Times, referring to a lecture by Mr. Warde Fowler on “the decay of Roman home life, in which the speaker drew a parallel between Roman times and ours, as both interesting and instructive,” says, “There is room, as all must admit, for anxiety, as we look at the signs of our time.” “There is much, no doubt, in our civilization, social and domestic, to which we can point as indicating real progress; but there are also hands that beckon us to the downward road along which Imperial Rome hastened to its decay and fall. Nor can there be any doubt that any decline in home life and the domestic virtues must, if it spreads, spell national degeneration, as it did in ancient Rome among the masses who were ‘homeless in the sense of being without a home,’ or among the wealthy who ‘were building themselves palatial residences too magnificent to be worthy of the name of home.’”