Old Spain and New Spain

Old Spain and New Spain

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303 pp. Deep green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt. Color map of Spain frontispiece. Dedication page dedicated to Edward Everett Hale (American author, historian, Unitarian minister and grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the American spy during the Revolutionary War). CONTENTS: In Sight of the Pyrenees, Pau and Lourdes; Biarritz, Crossing the Border; San Sebastian, The Basques and the Carlist War; The Birthplace of Ignatius Loyola; Burgos: The Cathedral and Monastery; Introduction to the Capital; The Queen Regent and the Little King; The Cortes, Debate on the Late Insurrection; Castelar; The Decadence of Spain, The Inquisition; A Revolution, Four Experiments of Government; The Escorial, Philip II, The Burial-place of Kings; The City of Toledo; The City and Mosque of Cordova; The Alhambra, The Last Sigh of the Moor; The Archbishop of Granada; Protestantism and Religious Liberty; Midnight Mass in the Cathedral of Seville; Pictures and Palaces, Bull-fights and Beggars; Spain and France, The Don Quixote of To-day.