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                      SICILY IN SHADOW AND IN SUN

                       Books on Italy and Spain

                            _By_ MAUD HOWE


     ROMA BEATA. Letters from the Eternal City. With illustrations from
     drawings by JOHN ELLIOTT and from photographs. 8vo. In box. $2.50
     _net_. _Popular Illustrated Edition._ Crown 8vo. In box. $1.50
     _net_.

     TWO IN ITALY. _Popular Illustrated Edition._ With six full-page
     drawings by JOHN ELLIOTT. Crown 8vo. In box. $1.50 _net_.

     SUN AND SHADOW IN SPAIN. With four plates in color and other
     illustrations. 8vo. In box. $3.00 _net_.

     SICILY IN SHADOW AND IN SUN. With twelve pictures from original
     drawings and numerous illustrations from photographs taken by JOHN
     ELLIOTT. 8vo. In box. $3.00 _net_.


                   LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers
                       34 BEACON STREET, BOSTON

          [Illustration: THE TELL TALE TOWER. _Frontispiece._

           The clock stopped at the hour of the earthquake.]




                           SICILY IN SHADOW
                              AND IN SUN

                        THE EARTHQUAKE AND THE
                         AMERICAN RELIEF WORK

                                  BY

                               MAUD HOWE

                AUTHOR OF “ROMA BEATA,” “SUN AND SHADOW
                    IN SPAIN,” “TWO IN ITALY,” ETC.

                     _With numerous illustrations_

              _Including pictures from photographs taken
                  in Sicily and original drawings by_

                             JOHN ELLIOTT


                                BOSTON
                      LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
                                 1910

                          _Copyright, 1910_,

                    BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

                         _All rights reserved_


                      Published, November, 1910.



                          _LOUIS E. CROSSCUP_
                               _Printer_
                       _Boston, Mass., U. S. A._



                                  TO
                         MRS. LLOYD C. GRISCOM




FOREWORD


Sicily, the “Four Corners” of that little ancient world that was bounded
on the west by the Pillars of Hercules, is to southern Europe what
Britain is to northern Europe, Chief of Isles, universal Cross-roads.
Sicily lies nearer both to Africa and to Europe than any other
Mediterranean island, and is the true connecting link between East and
West. Battle-ground of contending races and creeds, it has been soaked
over and over again in the blood of the strong men who fought each other
for its possession. There has never been a Sicilian nation. Perhaps that
is the reason the story of the island is so hard to follow, it’s all
snarled up with the history of first one, then another nation. The most
obvious way of learning something about Sicily is to read what
historians have to say about it; a pleasanter way is to listen to what
the poets from Homer to Goethe have sung of it, paying special heed to
Theocritus--he knew Sicily better than anybody else before his time or
since! Then there’s the geologist