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RETURN TO SICILY AND MOUNT ÆTNA. SUBJECT OF MOUNT ÆTNA RESUMED:—ITS BEAUTIES—ITS HORRORS—REASON WHY PEOPLE ENDURE THEM.—LOVE-STORY OF AN EARTHQUAKE 177   CHAPTER XI. BEES. THE BEAUTIFUL NEVER TO BE THANKED TOO MUCH, OR TO BE SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED.—BEES AND THEIR ELEGANCE.—THEIR ADVICE TO AN ITALIAN POET.—WAXEN TAPERS.—A BEE DRAMA.—MASSACRES OF DRONES.—HUMAN PROGRESSION 198   CHAPTER XII. MISCELLANEOUS FEELINGS RESPECTING SICILY, ITS MUSIC, ITS RELIGION, AND ITS MODERN POETRY. DANTE’S EVENING.—AVE MARIA OF BYRON.—THE SICILIAN VESPERS.—NOTHING “INFERNAL” IN NATURE.—SICILIAN MARINER’S HYMN.—INVOCATION FROM COLERIDGE.—PAGAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC WORSHIP.—LATIN AND ITALIAN COUPLET.—WINTER’S “RATTO DI PROSERPINA.”—A HINT ON ITALIAN AIRS.—BELLINI, MELI, THE MODERN THEOCRITUS 211

 

 

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OVERFLOWINGS OF THE JAR.

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THE JOURNEY TO THE FEAST (FROM THEOCRITUS)	237
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION (FROM MOSCHUS)	243
THE SHIP OF HIERO	248
SERENADES IN SICILY AND NAPLES	250
SICILIAN BANDITTI IN THE YEAR 1770	255
GOOD-NATURED HOSPITALITY, AND FACETIOUS IGNORANT OLD GENTLEMAN	260
OF HIGHER SOCIETY	261
POETICAL TURN OF THE SICILIANS	263
A MEETING OF ENGLISH AND SICILIAN DISHES ON CHRISTMAS-DAY	265

 

 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

DESIGNED AND DRAWN ON WOOD BY RICHARD DOYLE

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A JAR OF HONEY FROM MOUNT HYBLA	(Frontispiece)
THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE	25
SICULO-SARACENIC JAR	33
THE SIRENS AND ULYSSES	34
THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE	53
PRESIDING DEITY OF HYBLA, FROM A SICILIAN COIN	57
INFANT PLATO AND THE BEES	58
FAIRY AND BEE	70
SHEPHERDESS AND FLOCK	71
THEOCRITUS, FROM THE RECEIVED PORTRAIT OF HIM	87
POLYPHEMUS	88
SICILIAN PEASANT	106
KING ROBERT AND THE ANGEL	107
KING ROBERT, FROM A SICILIAN COIN	122
SIR CALIDORE	123
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