PEARL FISHERIES 211 PRICE 275 IMITATION AND DOCTORED PEARLS 295 FACTS AND FANCIES 311 PEARLS IN LITERATURE 335 GLOSSARY 363 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PEARLS AND SHELLS FROM THE VARIOUS FISHERIES 369 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE H. M. QUEEN ALEXANDRA AND HER PEARLS _Frontispiece _ THE RAJAH OF DHOLPUR 21 Whose Pearls Have Been Valued at $7,500,000 PRINCESS ABAMALEK LAZAREFF, NÉE DEMIDOFF 70 From the Painting by Vitelleschi VARYING FORMS OF PEARLS 83 PANAMA PEARL-SHELL, SHOWING MUD-BLISTERS, BORERS AND PEARL 92 TUAMOTU PEARL-SHELL 127 AUSTRALIAN PEARL-SHELL 129 VENEZUELAN PEARL-SHELL WITH PEARL ATTACHED 131 MANILA PEARL-SHELL WITH THE LIP CONSERVED 144 MISSISSIPPI NIGGER-HEAD PEARL MUSSEL 146 VENEZUELAN PEARL-SHELL SHOWING BAROQUE 161 NATIVE AUSTRALIAN PEARL-DIVERS 188 EAST INDIAN PEARL-DIVERS RESTING 215 PEARL-FISHING IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 262 THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY 283 COUNTESS TORBY 326 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEP BLUE SEA