Category: History - American
ROMA BEATA. Letters from the Eternal City. With illustrations from drawings by JOHN ELLIOTT and from photographs. 8vo. In box. $2.50 _net_. _Popular Illustrated Edition._ Crown 8vo. In box. $1.50 _net_.
ROMA BEATA. Letters from the Eternal City. With illustrations from drawings by JOHN ELLIOTT and from photographs. 8vo. In box. $2.50 _net_. _Popular Illustrated Edition._ Crown...
2. Part 2The party broke up in high spirits. Vera, followed by the ecstatic puppy, came into the hall with us. I see her vivid face, her white and silver dress, as she stood below the en...
3. Part 3I haunted the station in those days, watching the departure of the bands of engineers, firemen, doctors, medical students that went down from Rome by every train that left for N...
4. Part 4And all this time the great stream of supplies was pouring in a steady flood toward Messina. The city was like a man who dies of starvation in the midst of plenty, because he ha...
5. Part 5“I was wakened by the earthquake but not very much frightened at first. I did get up and go to the window to watch the sea. It was terrible to hear and most curious. Out in the...
6. Part 6“Signora, it is a cradle but of an unimaginable fineness! Observe the pillow case, it is of linen. This is a blanket for a queen’s son; and these garments, truly they are fit fo...
7. Part 7Just then the Ambassador and Mrs. Griscom came up in their motor and we all got on board the train. The journey to Civitavecchia was all too short; we hardly found time to look...
8. Part 8“Worked early getting off the goods the Vice Consul had asked for. The Ambassador and the rest of the party, except Elliott and myself, went on shore; weather very wet and storm...
9. Part 9“January 15th: Left Messina about 6:30 and came over to Reggio. Stormy early, later cleared and day became splendid. Got well in and anchored near the shore, close to Italian cr...
10. Part 10Emilio Benlieuri, the Spanish sculptor, one of our familiars, appeared in the doorway, a tall lean melancholy man with the burning eyes and the grave bearing of the Valencian Don.
11. Part 11The Roman hotel-keeper today is a far more important personage than the poet and artist he has ousted from their garden of delight, the lovely Villa Ludovisi. If he were really...
12. Part 12“_Basta!_” cried Antonio, bending to his oars. There is war to the knife between him and the diver, a share of whose profits he demands. “To the American war-ship, Signore? Off...
13. Part 13“‘Celtic,’ next day: Chanler blew back from Naples at seven o’clock this morning, and went back to Reggio about an hour later. He is looking awfully well and is full of business...
14. Part 14only at bedtime. There is no theatre, no place of amusement, not even a cinematograph in Messina. At sunset the young sailors, who have worked all day and are not yet tired, wre...
15. Part 15“Discreetly; I am returning from Naples, where I have been to buy the new shapes, look over the modes. I have some beautiful French straw--if the Signora should come to Palermo?”
16. Part 16“I have lived on this spot for thirty-seven years,” the old woman began. “_She_ was born here,” pointing to Sofia. “Do you think I would live anywhere else? Later we shall have...
17. Part 17We gravitated naturally to the cathedral of San Nicolò, pausing outside to look at the fountain surmounted by the oddest figure of a Minotaur, with the head of a man and the bod...
18. Part 18“Americano, yes, born in Nuova Yorka! I was butler to a great family--they paid me sixty _scudi_ a month--go back? oh, yes! We came to see our parents once more, _ma come si fà_...
19. Part 19“Notice one thing more,” said the _custode_, pointing to a bit of cornice that lay protected from the weather by a large fragment. “You see this white coating like fine stucco?...
20. Part 20conquest of England. We know comparatively little about it, because we have not the same keen interest in what befell Sicily as in all that happened to mother England, but for t...
21. Part 21“Badly, Signora. It is a dreadful season. No one buys anything new. See that mass of old hats my customers have brought me to make over! It is a miracle the Signora should come...
22. Part 22“The hospital referred to was one that the Queen desired to be built at Villaggio Regina Elena. Like the hotel, it began as a combination of several standard cottages, but, as M...
23. Part 23The services in Messina this Easter Sunday were far more impressive than any I ever saw at Rome or even at Seville. The pontifical mass was said by the Archbishop in a small woo...
24. Part 24“After much consideration, the idea has occurred to me that about the best disposition to make of our camp and camp outfit here would be to turn the whole establishment over to...