Precious Stones: Their History and Mystery

Nine chapters on what people have believed about jewels — the charms and the poisons, the chaplet of pearls, the ecclesiastical treasuries, and the great robberies they invited.

A Chaplet of Pearls

6 pages in this part of History and Mystery of Precious Stones.

A Chaplet of Pearls

There is a magic charm in the Pearl that seems to have fascinated the world in various ages and countries. The modest splendour and purity…

A Chaplet of Pearls: Pliny

Caligula wore slippers made of pearls; and Nero formed of them sceptres for the characters on the stage, and couches for his amours. The…

A Chaplet of Pearls: Nisan

Benjamin of Tudela says:- "In these places" (about Kathipha, in the Indian Sea) "the stone called bdellius is found made by the wonderful…

A Chaplet of Pearls: Shakspeare

Shakspeare ("Richard III."):- "The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging…

A Chaplet of Pearls: Milton

Milton, in "Paradise Lost," has several allusions to the "orient pearl":- "Now morn her rosy steps in the Eastern clime Advancing, sowed…

A Chaplet of Pearls: Herrick

Herrick sings:- "Some ask'd how pearls did growe, and where, Then spake I to my girle, To part her lips, and show me there The quarelets of…

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