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BY
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON——NEW YORK——TORONTO
MCMXVI
ILLUSTRATIONS
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| "The thatched roofs are replaced by roofs of shingle that shine like silver in the sun" | [6] |
| "Very different are the mountain villages from those of the plain. The cottages are less miserable" | [6] |
| "Many a hearty welcome has been given me in these little villages" | [7] |
| "Square, high buildings with an open gallery round the top" | [7] |
| "It is especially in the Dobrudja that these different nationalities jostle together" | [10] |
| "It had kept the delightful appearance of having been modelled bya potter's thumb" | [14] |
| "Primitive strongholds, half tower, half peasant-house" | [14] |
| "Richer and more varied are the peasants' costumes" | [14] |
| "With an open gallery round the top formed by stout short columns" | [15] |
| "Composed of a double colonnade.... Behind these colonnades arethe nuns' small cells: tiny domes, little chambers" | [15] |
| "A convent ... white and lonely, hidden away in wooded regionsgreener and sweeter than any other in the land" | [18] |
| "This porch is decorated all over with frescoes" | [22] |
| "Some were so old, so bent, that they could no more raise their headsto look up at the sky above" | [23] |
| "Strange old monks inhabited it" | [23] |
| "Silent recluses, buried away from the world" | [23] |
| "An indescribable harmony makes its lines beautiful" | [26] |
| "A lonely little cemetery, filled with crosses of wood" | [30] |
| "On lonely mountain-sides" | [30] |
| "Guarded by a few hoary old monks" | [30] |
| "There lies a tiny wee church" | [30] |
| "Tall and upright, with the pale, ascetic face of a saint" | [30] |
| "Creatures so old and decrepit that they seem to have gathered mosslike stones lying for ever in the same place" | [30] |
| "When found in such numbers they are mostly hewn out of wood" | [31] |
| "These strange old crosses ... they stand by the wayside" | [31] |
| "Mostly they stand beside wells" | [34] |
| "Quaint of shape, they attract the eye from far" | [38] |
| "Sometimes they are of quaintly carved stone" | [38] |
| "Strange old crosses that on all roads I have come upon" | [38] |
| "Their forms and sizes are varied" | [38] |
| "None of the greater buildings attract me so strongly as those littlevillage churches" | [39] |
| "The altar is shut off from the rest of the building by a carved andpainted screen" | [39] |
| "The roofs are always of shingle" | [42] |
| "Varied indeed are the shapes of these peasant churches" | [46] |
| "Their principal feature being the stout columns that support the porchin front" | [46] |
| "But with some the belfry stands by itself" | [47] |
| "The columns have beautiful carved capitals of rarest design ... whitewashedlike the rest of the church" | [47] |
| "Quaint indeed are the buildings that some simple-hearted artist haspainted" | [47] |
| "These lonely mountain-dwellers" | [50] |
| "These shaggy garments give them a wild appearance" | [54] |
| "Their only refuges are dug-outs" | [54] |
| "Even tiny boys wear these extraordinary coats" | [54] |
| "Here, in company with their dogs, they spend the long summermonths" | [54] |
| "On juicy pastures near clear-flowing stream" | [55] |
| "Silent watchers leaning on their staffs" | [55] |
| "Wherever I have met them, be it on the mountains or in the plains,... these silent shepherds have seemed to me the very personificationof solitude" | [55] |
| "On the burning plains of the Dobrudja where for miles around notree is to be seen" | [58] |
| "Stifled by the overwhelming temperature, they had massed themselvestogether" | [58] |
| "Mothers and children, and old grannies" | [62] |
| "Small bronze statues with curly, tousled heads" | [62] |
| "Occasionally a torn shirt barely covers them" | [62] |
| "Most beautiful of all are the young girls" | [63] |
| "Inconceivably picturesque" | [63] |
| "These are the respected members of the tribes" | [63] |
| "I have often met old couples wanderingtogether" | [63] |
| "A bare field where the soldiers exercised" | [66] |