boasts but few attractions. The streets are filthy beyond description,
and so narrow that two persons can hardly ride abreast; the houses have
a dilapidated appearance, and the people an air of dejected poverty.
Long Venetian blinds hang over the balconies, and through their
interstices peer the charming _Granadinas_, displaying in lustrous eyes
and jet-black tresses their Moorish ancestry. At the side of almost
every door is an altar, where a plaster image, arrayed in blue and
tinsel, amid a cloud of votos and paper flowers, stares vacantly at the
passer-by.
[Footnote B:
"Who hath not Granada seen
Is no traveller, I ween."]
The Granadan dress is wholly Spanish, far different from that of
the western provinces, where Parisian fashions are fast supplanting
the showy national costume. The ladies wear lace mantillas and
close-fitting skirts of light-colored silk, and are never seen without
the coquettish fan, which no one knows how to wield so well as the
charming Spanish woman. As for the men, they are almost invariably
muffled in a cloak that hides them to the very eyes, except on some
grand holiday, when they appear in all the splendor of plush jacket and
scarlet sash, adding much to the brilliancy of the gay and noisy throng.
When riding, the lady usually mounts behind her lover, and, with
nothing to steady her but a scarf fastened to the crupper, will gallop
unconcernedly over mountain-roads and through crooked lanes at the
greatest speed. At the festivals is exhibited to the best advantage the
character of the idle and music-loving Andalusian, from the lounging
dandy, praising in bad extempore verses the beauty of some bar-maid in
the little wine-shop, to the dishevelled gypsy, equally ready to sing a
song or pick the pocket of the careless and admiring stranger.
INDEX.
PAGE
Alhambra, The S. P. SCOTT 257
Andalusia, Seville, the Queen of S. P. SCOTT 238
ANONYMOUS Windsor Forest and Castle 36
Arthur's Land, King J. YOUNG 84
BARR, AMELIA The English Lake District 93
BEERS, W. GEORGE North of Ireland Scenes 168
BETHAM-EDWARDS, M. A French Farmer's Paradise 211
BOTFIELD, BERIAH Island of Staffa and Fingal's
Cave 140
Bull-Fight, The Spanish JOSEPH MOORE 230
BURRITT, ELIHU Kenilworth and Warwick Castles 25
Chatsworth Castle JOHN LEYLAND 75
Cordova and Its Mosque S. P. SCOTT 218
Cork to Killarney SARAH J. LIPPINCOTT 157
Cumberland, The Roman Wall of ROSE G. KINGSLEY 105
DICKENS, CHARLES Travel in France Fifty Years
Ago 189
Dublin OLIVER H. G. LEIGH 21
Edinburgh, The "Old Town" of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 120
English Lake District, The AMELIA BARR 93
English Rural Scenery SARAH B. WISTER 112
Farmer's Paradise, A French M. BETHAM-EDWARDS 211
Fingal's Cave, Island of Staffa and BERIAH BOTFIELD 140
France Fifty Years Ago, Travel in CHARLES DICKENS 189
French Farmer's Paradise, A M. BETHAM-EDWARDS 211
Genoa, Street Scenes in AUGUSTA MARRYAT 249
Glasgow OLIVER H. G. LEIGH 23
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL Westminster Abbey 56
HAWTHORNE, JULIAN The Gardens at Kew 64
Ireland and Its Capital MATTHEW WOODS 148
Ireland, Scenes in North of W. GEORGE BEERS 168
Island of Staffa and Fingal's Cave BERIAH BOTFIELD 140
Kenilworth and Warwick Castles ELIHU BURRITT 25
Kew, The Gardens at JULIAN HAWTHORNE 64
Killarney, Cork to SARAH J. LIPPINCOTT 157
King Arthur's Land J. YOUNG 84
KINGSLEY, ROSE G. The Roman Wall of Cumberland 105
Lake District, The English AMELIA BARR 93
Land of Rob Roy, In the NATHANIEL P. WILLIS 129
LEYLAND, JOHN Chatsworth Castle 75
LEIGH, OLIVER H. G. London 5
" " " Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow,
Dublin 17, 20, 23, 21
LIPPINCOTT, SARAH J. From Cork to Killarney 157
Liverpool OLIVER H. G. LEIGH 20
London " " " 5
London, The Aspect of HIPPOLYTE TAINE 47
Manchester OLIVER H. G. LEIGH 17
MARRYAT, AUGUSTA Street Scenes in Genoa 249
MITCHELL, DONALD G. From Normandy to Provence 200
MOORE, JOSEPH The Spanish Bull-Fight 230
Normandy to Provence, From DONALD G. MITCHELL 200
North of Ireland, Scenes in W. GEORGE BEERS 168
"Old Town" of Edinburgh, The ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 120
Paris and Its Attractions HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 178
Provence, From Normandy to DONALD G. MITCHELL 200
Rob Roy, In the Land of NATHANIEL P. WILLIS 129
Roman Wall of Cumberland, The ROSE G. KINGSLEY 105
Rural Scenery, English SARAH B. WISTER 112
SCOTT, S. P. Cordova and Its Mosque 218
" " Seville, the Queen of Andalusia 238
" " The Alhambra 257
Seville, the Queen of Andalusia S. P. SCOTT 238
Spanish Bull-Fight, The JOSEPH MOORE 230
Staffa and Fingal's Cave, Island of BERIAH BOTFIELD 140
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS The "Old Town" of Edinburgh 120
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Paris and Its Attractions 178
TAINE, HIPPOLYTE The Aspect of London 47
Travel in France Fifty Years Ago CHARLES DICKENS 189
Warwick Castles, Kenilworth and ELIHU BURRITT 25
Westminster Abbey NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 56
WILLIS, NATHANIEL P. In the Land of Rob Roy 129
Windsor Forest and Castle ANONYMOUS 36
WISTER, SARAH B. English Rural Scenery 112
WOODS, MATTHEW Ireland and Its Capital 148
YOUNG, J. King Arthur's Land 84
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