A True Realist.

This article presents information regarding the book "Cavalleria Rusticana, and Other Sicilian Peasant Tales," by Giovanni Verga. This work gives a very fair specimen of Verga's aims, method, and style, it is a perfect picture of Sicilian life in the fishing villages of the province of Catania, which mostly begin with Aci, Aci Reale being the district in 1892. The shore was covered with artists painting the huge rocky needles which serve as bulwarks to the tiny bay full of fishing boats, and, as one does in Scotland among the scenes where Wailer Scott has laid his stories, one wants about trying to find the originals of Verga's humble folk.