Introduction 



deserves to be read as a little masterpiece of travel by any 

 one upon whom the glamour of Spain has fallen ; and it 

 was a happy thought to rescue it from the undeserved 

 oblivion into which it had sunk. Personally I shall love 

 it always for what it meant to me in those fast-fading days 

 or my early youth, but it should charm others by the wit 

 and brilliancy of its narrative and the unfailing vigour of 

 its style. 



MARTIN HUME. 



London, April, 1908. 



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