Front matter
Reading edition
Temple, Taormina
ITALY THE MAGIC LAND
BY LILIAN WHITING
AUTHOR OF “THE FLORENCE OF LANDOR,” “THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT,” “THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL,” ETC.
“And, under many a yellow star, We dropped into the Magic Land!”
Illustrated from Photographs
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1907
Copyright, 1907, By Little, Brown, and Company. —— All rights reserved
Published November, 1907
THE GRIFFITH-STILLINGS PRESS, BOSTON, U.S.A.
TO ELLA (Mrs. Franklin Simmons)
WHOSE EARTHLY FORM REPOSES IN THE BEAUTIFUL ROMAN CEMETERY, WHERE POETIC ASSOCIATIONS WITH KEATS AND SHELLEY HAUNT THE AIR,—UNDER THE SCULPTURED “ANGEL OF THE RESURRECTION,” WITH ITS MAJESTIC SYMBOLISM OF THE TRIUMPH OF IMMORTALITY,—BUT WHOSE RADIANT PRESENCE STILL TRANSFIGURES THE LIFE THAT HELD HER IN IMMORTAL DEVOTION,— THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,
WITH THE UNFORGETTING LOVE OF
LILIAN WHITING.
Rome, Italy, May Days, 1907.
“Nor Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own.”