There is much difference between these people and the Neapolitans; they seem to have no liking for noise, talk with a certain repose, and allow the stranger to go about among them unmolested, unimportuned.

Women above the poorest class are not seen in the streets; there prevails an Oriental system of seclusion.
I was glad to come upon the pot market; in the south of Italy it is always a beautiful and interesting sight.

Pottery for commonest use among Calabrian peasants has a grace of line, a charm of colour, far beyond anything native to our most pretentious china-shops.

Here still lingers a trace of the old civilization.

There must be a great good in a people which has preserved this need of beauty through ages of servitude and suffering.