The Magic of Spain
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About This Book
Excerpt from the introductory Note: THIS is rather a collection of stray notes on Spain than a connected study-of notes from many pleasant hours of Spanish literature and travel, but perhaps of too individual an interest to appear without some apology. No reference will be found to those great social and political problems which disturb Spanish life. To fill the idler moments of a Spanish holiday, and possibly to help the reader to feel that "parfum du terroir" which pervades Spain, is the unambitious object of these pages. Better still, if he turns from them in dissatisfaction to authoritativ...
Chapters (277)
- THE MAGIC OF SPAIN
- NOTE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- I SPANISH CHARACTER
- I.—Stray Opinions
- II.—Vain Generalities.
- II TRAVELLING IN SPAIN
- III ON THE SPANISH FRONTIER
- IV ESKUAL-ERRIA
- I.—Basque Country
- II.—Basque Customs
- V IN REMOTE NAVARRE
- VI SPANISH CITIES
- VII IN OLD CASTILLE
- VIII THE DESERT AND THE SOWN
- IX THE COAST OF CATALONIA IN AUTUMN
- X AN EASTERN VILLAGE
- XI OFF THE EAST COAST OF SPAIN
- XII THE JUDGING OF THE WATERS
- XIII SEVILLE IN WINTER
- XIV FROM A SEVILLE HOUSETOP
- XV FEBRUARY IN ANDALUCÍA
- XVI SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF SPANISH LITERATURE
- XVII THE POEM OF THE CID
- 1.—A Primitive Masterpiece
- II. Valencia del Cid.
- XVIII A PRISONER OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION
- I.—Novedades
- II.—Salamanca University
- III.—In a Valladolid Dungeon.
- IV.—Ex Forti Dulcedo.
- XIX THE MODERN SPANISH NOVEL
- I.—Revival. Fernán Caballero
- II.—1870-1900.
- III.—In the Twentieth Century.
- XX NOVELS OF GALICIA
- XXI NOVELS OF THE MOUNTAIN
- I.—“Savour of the Soil”
- II.—“On the Heights”
- XXII CASTILIAN PROSE
- XXIII TOLEDO AND EL GRECO
- INDEX
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