PREFACE TO NEW EDITION 



THE generous appreciation with which my larger 



book on the Alhambra was received by both the 



Press and the public in Spain and America, as 



well as in this country, encourages me to hope 



that the present volume will prove a popular 



addition to this Spanish Series. Three years ago, 



when I published The Alhambra to supply what 



my own experience taught me to be a real want, 



the scale and quality of the illustrations made it 



impossible to issue the work at a popular price. 



I am now enabled to present an inexpensive and, 



I trust, adequate souvenir of the fascinating city 



of Granada and its Red Palace. The text is no 



mere reprint of the matter which appeared in 



my former work, but embodies the results of a 



more critical, though not less appreciative, survey 



of the last monuments of the Spanish Moor. 



Bearing in mind, too, that the illustrations, being 



on a reduced scale, called for fuller explanation, 



I have endeavoured to condense as much detail 



and descriptive matter into the letterpress as 



the limits I had laid down for myself admitted. 



