ABSTRACT
THERE is no more charming place to wander about in than Jerash. Sitt:'1g up on the terrace upon which the temple stOOl 'fyou can look up at a column
that has lost its architrave and the stone acanthus leaves of the capital stand out boldly against the blue sky. At your feet, among the usual litter of fCl.nen masonry, the humble wild plant of the acanthus shows what art can fashion out of the suggestion of Nature. You can look down over the field of ruins, noting the many columns that stand as sentinels marking out a road that once must have been gay with the colours of the Orientals' draperies and imposing with the toga of a Roman or the glint of the helmet of one of the legionaries. There is no discordant note.
