ABOUT BOOK

This book presents, for the first time in fiction, a correct andadequate account of the Vestal Virgins, their powers andprivileges, as well as of many strange Roman customs andbeliefs.The author combines the power of writing a rattling good storywith a sound and full knowledge of conditions of the life which heis depicting. Mr. White brings to the history of Rome all thepicturesqueness and power which made his South American novel,"El Supremo," so remarkable. The result is a vivid pageant ofimperial Rome and Roman life at the height of its power and splendor.