THE NOVELS OF
L. ADAMS BECK
The Key of Dreams
The Perfume of the Rainbow
The Treasure of Ho
The Ninth Vibration
The Way of Stars
The Splendour of Asia
Dreams and Delights
DREAMS
AND DELIGHTS
BY
L. ADAMS BECK
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1926
Copyright, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926
BY DODD, MEAD, & COMPANY, INC.
Printed in U. S. A.
THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS
BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK
PREFACE
These stories of dreams and delights in breathless junglesof Ceylon, among Himalayan mountains, by Chinese seas,in ancientries beneath dead suns and withered moons, are intruth the soul’s longing to behold the White Swan of theWorld when in dim twilights of dawn and evening shespreads her wings for flight. And because to such wingstime and distance are nothing I have gathered one featherdropped on Dartmoor as she soared to Gaurisankar whereon the highest peak of earth, circled by great stars, theMystic Mother of India dreams her divine dream as theages unroll beneath her feet. The Snowy Goddess, She whois Very Woman of very woman, knows that whether byThames or Ganges, Mississippi, Yang-tze, or rolling Nile,Her daughters are the same, yesterday, to-day a