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POSTSCRIPT TO RIALLARO RIALLARO THE ARCHIPELAGO OF EXILES BY GODFREY SWEVEN G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1901 Copyright, 1901 by G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS The Knic…
RESURRECTIONS GOD, God! how Thy past clings to us like shadows, turn we as we may forever to the sunrise! Out of the night and from beyond it come forms that seem buried below the reach of grave-dese…
RIALLARO SUCH was the name that one group of islands gave to this mystic region of the sea; and it meant “the ring of mist.” A sense of awe fell on me as I listened to the chorus. Whither was I dragg…
LANDING AT last, I was sure, we were about to know a people that had not blurred the features of primeval virtue. And yet I laughed at the thought. What was there in human nature to insure material a…
THE LANGUAGE IN order to avoid too much observation, I got housed in an obscure hostelry that often accommodated foreigners. But none of the occupants knew my language, nor did I any of theirs. Gestu…
ALEOFANIAN SOCIETY AND RELIGION LIKE their language, their social fabric was an intricate work of art, and it took me months to understand even its elementary lessons and principles. It had the quali…
ALEOFANIAN DEVOTION TO TRUTH MY admiration grew as I gradually discovered how everything in this wonderful country gave way before this great virtue. It was the first lesson taught the child; it was …
SOCIAL CUSTOMS THE first time that I went to a high-rank social entertainment of theirs, I broke into a hearty laugh at the spectacle as I entered; but I came to regret my imprudence. There were the …
ABSTINENCE “WHY should they refrain from the gifts that God in His goodness had bestowed on them?” Thus argued a party of gilded youth with me as they polecatted the air of a gorgeous room with their…
THE ORGANISATION OF REPUTE THESE items of information concerning the virtues of the race I learned not so much from the dwellers in the marble city themselves—they were too modest for that—as from pu…
