Excerpt from The Path of Stars A spacious lofty-ceiled salon in an old palace in Rome. Frescoes dim with age, yet rich in color, cover the walls. Through the large win dows there is seen the deep blue of the Italian sky and a glimpse of an occasional feature in Roman architecture; a mediaeval, battlemented tower, crumbling with age. Within, the somewhat barren grandeur of the room is broken by a mingling of old and modern furniture. Regal arm-chairs, in which a Doria might have sat, elbow divans with silken cushions. Beside a Venetian cabinet covered with barbaric carved monsters, is a tea-table inno cent with Dresden china cups and saucers. A grand piano, strewn with music, stands in a large space near one end of the room, and about it is a little group. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.