The Lily of the Arno; or, Florence, Past and Present

viii, 354 pp. Cream cloth boards with gilt decor and blue titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Photogravure illustrations. CONTENTS: The Street of the Watermelon; A Florence Window; The Shrine of the Five Lamps; Church Towers: The Ave Maria of Dawn, The Masquerade of the Winds, A Jewel-Box, A Pot of Geranium, A Blackbird, A Vesper Bell; Country Bells: The Ancient Mother; A Rose of Vallombrosa; The Cypress-Tree; By the City Gate; Those Who Came After; In the Church of the Lily; The Christ Child; A Chord of Music; Three Pictures: A Monk's Cell; The Autumn Leaf; The Respected Citizen; In a Church Niche; The Story-teller; From the Laboratory of a Prince; The Bronze Boar; A Silver Lamp; The Stranger Colony: Galileo's Disciple, The God Mars, A Branch of Almond Blossoms; The Grasshopper's Festival; On the Arno; The Window Closed; Index.