ildren's games current to-day in Palermo; he did not appear to know
that Plato had dipped in his own Athenian stream for the riddle quoted by
Glaucon towards the end of the fifth book of the _Republic_. The riddles
are similar not because Rosina had read the dialogue, nor because Glaucon
had seen the play, but because the two streams flowed as one until Greek
colonists took their folk-lore with them into Sicily before Plato was
born.
CONTENTS

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CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE BRIGADIER AND THE 3
LOTTERY

CASTELLINARIA

II. PEPPINO 29
III. THE PROFESSOR 41
IV. THE WINE-SHIP 52

CATANIA

V. MICHELLE AND THE 77
PRINCESS OF BIZERTA

TRAPANI

VI. FERRAU AND ANGELICA 97
VII. THE DEATH OF 113
BRADAMANTE

MOUNT ERYX

VIII. MONTE SAN GIULIANO 131
IX. THE MADONNA AND THE 149
PERSONAGGI
X. THE UNIVERSAL DELUGE 166
XI. THE RETURN 181

CUSTONACI

XII. FAITH AND 189
SUPERSTITION

CALATAFIMI

XIII. THE PRODIGAL SON AND 213
THE ARTS

PALERMO

XIV. SAMSON 235
XV. THE CONVERSION OF THE 254
EMPEROR CONSTANTINE

CASTELLINARIA

XVI. A GREAT ACTOR 279
XVII. SUPPER WITH THE 290
PLAYERS
XVIII. A YOUNG CRITIC 304
XIX. BRANCACCIA 317
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CHAPTER I--THE BRIGADIER AND THE LOTTERY

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