Italian Backgrounds
Illustrated by Peixotto
Contents
An Alpine Posting Inn
A Midsummer Week’s Dream
The Sanctuaries of the Pennine
Alps
What the Hermits Saw
A Tuscan Shrine
Sub Umbra Liliorum
March in Italy
Picturesque Milan
Italian Backgrounds
“Belongs in that small class of books of observation which are also books of artistic and spiritual interpretation; which not only describe places and monuments, but convey an impression of peoples, a sense of society, with the elusive atmosphere in which everything of historical or artistic value is seen by those who have the gift of sight.”—The Outlook.
The Decoration of Houses
With 56 full-page illustrations, by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr.
The Joy of Living
(Es lebe das Leben)
A play in five acts, by Hermann Sudermann. Translated from the German by Edith Wharton.
[Large 8vo, $2.50 net]