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    Things seen in Spain
    Things seen in Spain
    Things seen in Spain
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    Things seen in Spain

    By C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Things seen in Spain - C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

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      Title: Things seen in Spain

      Author: C. Gasquoine Hartley

      Release Date: July 10, 2012  [eBook #40201]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THINGS SEEN IN SPAIN***

      This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.

      THINGS SEEN IN

      SPAIN

      BY

      C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY

      AUTHOR OF

      RECORD OF SPANISH PAINTING, "MOORISH CITIES

      IN SPAIN," ETC.

      WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS

      LONDON

      SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED

      38 Great Russell Street

      1912

      UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

      Cloth, 2s. net; leather, 3s. net; velvet leather, in a box, 5s. net

      THINGS SEEN IN VENICE

      By CANON LONSDALE RAGG & LAURA M. RAGG

      With 50 Illustrations

      THINGS SEEN IN NORTHERN INDIA

      BY T. L. PENNELL, M.D., B.Sc.  With 50 Illustrations

      THINGS SEEN IN SPAIN

      BY C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY.  With 50 Illustrations

      A successful series by capable writers.—Times.

      THINGS SEEN IN HOLLAND

      BY C. E. ROCHE.  With 50 Illustrations

      A charming addition to the series . . . eminently readable.—The Morning Post.

      THINGS SEEN IN EGYPT

      BY E. L. BUTCHER.  With 50 Illustrations

      Mrs. Butcher is thoroughly conversant with her subject . . . excellently written.—The Globe.

      THINGS SEEN IN CHINA

      BY J. R. CHITTY.  With 50 Illustrations

      By a writer who adds grace and style to entire familiarity with the country and people.—The Birmingham Post.

      A racy description of the social life of the Chinese.—The Scotsman

      THINGS SEEN IN JAPAN

      BY CLIVE HOLLAND.  With 50 Illustrations

      A delightful little book.—The Church Times.

      An attractive volume; the photographs with which it is illustrated are admirable.  The subjects give a very fair idea of the beauty and charm of a fascinating country.—The Manchester Guardian.

      SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED

      CONTENTS [0]

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      CHAPTER I—THE FASCINATION OF SPAIN

      Spain the Home of Romance—The Conservatism of the People—Spain the most Democratic of Countries—The Tradition of Chivalry—The Cid—Spain the Connecting Link between Europe and Africa—The Place of the Moor in the Country To-day—The Gardens of Granada—The Bull-fight: its National Importance—Spanish Dancing.

      Coming into Spain by any of the chief portals—at Port Bou, at Algeciras, or at Irun—one finds oneself in a totally new country.  You cast much behind you as you come, for instance, from France; you will be impressed by a certain strangeness of aspect far different from all you have learnt to expect in other countries.  You will feel transplanted back into another world.  It is as if Spain had sat aside waiting, indifferent and proud, while elsewhere life has rushed onwards.

      The conservatism of Spain may be gathered from the old impressions we find in the pages of writers describing the people and the country of more than a century ago, which are still true in so much as they refer to what is essential in the national spirit, and to the survival of the customs of mediæval Europe.  I regard the Spanish people, says Stendhal, as the living representatives of the Middle Ages.

      Spain is still the home of the romance which belonged to an age that has passed.  And although the more flourishing Spanish towns are nowadays full of animation—factories are springing up and signs of commercial activity are not wanting—this new movement of progress has not destroyed this romance.  The Spain which Cervantes immortalized still lives.  We may still take Don Quixote and Sancho Panza as typical figures, whom you may see any day in the towns of Castile or walking on the roads of La Mancha.  These are the types that have remained unchanged.

      And herein rests the fascination of Spain—this conservatism which has lasted into an age of hurrying progress.  It is a fascination that everyone will not feel, but for those whom it touches the glamour is more permanent and irresistible than that of any other country I know.

      Many details of life, and especially in the smaller towns still unvisited by the tourist, remind us of a past that other countries have left behind.  The serenos, or night watchmen, with long hooded cloaks, tipped staves, and lanterns, are familiar figures in every town.  In the country the shepherd is seen, wrapped in his coloured blanket, leaning on his tall staff in the midst of his flock.  The wandering palmer with his cockle-shell, known to the England of Chaucer, may still be met in Spain.

      You realize how far you are from the present when you enter a Spanish town.  You pass under a Moorish gateway, dark and imposing, with a suggestion

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