A DOCK SCENE IN NEW ORLEANS (page 348) Frontispiece From a painting, by Robert W. Grafton, in the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. By the courtesy of Alfred S. Amer.

INDRA IN HIS COURT From a Fifteenth Century Jain manuscript. [50]

THE OLD CREOLE OPERA HOUSE, NEW ORLEANS [230]

JUTTING BALCONIES IN THE CREOLE CITY [322]

Except as otherwise stated, the illustrations are from photographs by CHARLES S. OLCOTT


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