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Wise + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain + + +Author: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: July 20, 2009 [eBook #29469] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER TO THE +BIBLE IN SPAIN*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and +Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images +from which this transcription was made.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/cover.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Cover of pamphlet" +title= +"Cover of pamphlet" +src="images/cover.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p0b.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Facsimile of last page of pamphlet" +title= +"Facsimile of last page of pamphlet" +src="images/p0s.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h1><span class="smcap">a</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">supplementary chapter</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">to</span><br /> +THE BIBLE IN SPAIN</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Inspired by</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">ford’s</span> “<span +class="smcap">hand-book for travellers in +spain</span>.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span><br /> +1913</p> +<h2><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>PREFATORY NOTE</h2> +<p>In 1845 Richard Ford published his <i>Hand-Book for Travellers +in Spain and Readers at Home</i> [2 Vols. 8vo.], a work which +still commands attention, and the compilation of which is said to +have occupied its author for more than sixteen years. In +conformity with the wish of Ford (who had himself favourably +reviewed <i>The Bible in Spain</i>) Borrow undertook to produce a +study of the <i>Hand-Book</i> for <i>The Quarterly +Review</i>. The following Essay was the result.</p> +<p>But the Essay, brilliant as it is, was not a +‘Review.’ Not until page 6 of the suppressed +edition (p. 25 of the present edition) is reached is the +<i>Hand-Book</i> even mentioned, and but little concerning it +appears thereafter. Lockhart, then editing the +<i>Quarterly</i>, proposed to render it more suitable for the +purpose for which it had been intended by himself interpolating a +series of extracts from Ford’s volumes. But Borrow +would tolerate no interference with his work, and promptly <!-- +page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>withdrew the Essay, which had meanwhile been set up in +type. The following letter, addressed by Lockhart to Ford, +sufficiently explains the position:</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: right"><i>London</i>,<br /> +<i>June</i> 13<i>th</i>, 1845.</p> +<p><i>Dear Ford</i>,</p> +<p>‘<i>El Gitano</i>’ <i>sent me a paper on the</i> +“<i>Hand-Book</i>” <i>which I read with +delight</i>. <i>It seemed just another capital chapter of +his</i> “<i>Bible in Spain</i>,” <i>and I +thought</i>, <i>as there was hardly a word of</i> +‘<i>review</i>,’ <i>and no extract giving the least +notion of the peculiar merits and style of the</i> +“<i>Hand-Book</i>,” <i>that I could easily</i> (<i>as +is my constant custom</i>) <i>supply the humbler part myself</i>, +<i>and so present at once a fair review of the work</i>, <i>and a +lively specimen of our friend’s vein of eloquence in +exordio</i>.</p> +<p><i>But</i>, <i>behold</i>! <i>he will not allow any +tampering</i> . . . <i>I now write to condole with you</i>; +<i>for I am very sensible</i>, <i>after all</i>, <i>that you run +a great risk in having your book committed to hands far less +competent for treating it or any other book of Spanish interest +than Borrow’s would have been</i> . . . <i>but I consider +that</i>, <i>after all</i>, <i>in the case of a new author</i>, +<i>it is the first duty of</i> “<i>The Quarterly +Review</i>” <i>to introduce that author fully and fairly to +the public</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><i>Ever Yours Truly</i>,<br /> +<i>J. G. Lockhart</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>The action of Lockhart in seeking to amend his Essay +excited Borrow’s keenest indignation, and induced him to +produce the following amusing squib:—</p> +<blockquote><p><i>Would it not be more dignified</i><br /> +<i>To run up debts on every side</i>,<br /> +<i>And then to pay your debts refuse</i>,<br /> +<i>Than write for rascally Reviews</i>?<br /> +<i>And lectures give to great and small</i>,<br /> +<i>In pot-house</i>, <i>theatre</i>, <i>and town-hall</i>,<br /> +<i>Wearing your brains by night and day</i><br /> +<i>To win the means to pay your way</i>?<br /> +<i>I vow by him who reigns in</i> [<i>hell</i>],<br /> +<i>It would be more respectable</i>!</p> +</blockquote> +<p>This squib was never printed by Borrow. I chanced to +light upon it recently in a packet of his as yet unpublished +verse.</p> +<p>The Essay itself is far too interesting, and far too +characteristic of its author, to be permitted to remain any +longer inaccessible; hence the present reprint. The +original is a folio pamphlet, extending to twelve numbered +pages. Of this pamphlet no more than two copies would +appear to have been struck off, and both are fortunately extant +to-day. One of these was formerly in the possession of Dr. +William J. Knapp, and is now the property of the Hispanic Society +of New York. The second example is in my own library. +This was Borrow’s own copy, and is freely <!-- page 10--><a +name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 10</span>corrected in +his handwriting throughout. From this copy the present +edition has been printed, and in preparing it the whole of the +corrections and additions made by Borrow to the text of the +original pamphlet have been adopted.</p> +<p>A reduced facsimile of the last page of the pamphlet serves as +frontispiece to the present volume.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">T. J. W.</p> +<h2><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER TO THE BIBLE IN SPAIN</h2> +<p>Does Gibraltar, viewing the horrors which are continually +taking place in Spain, and which, notwithstanding their frequent +grotesqueness, have drawn down upon that country the indignation +of the entire civilized world, never congratulate herself on her +severance from the peninsula, for severed she is morally and +physically? Who knows what is passing in the bosom of the +old Rock? Yet on observing the menacing look which she +casts upon Spain across the neutral ground, we have thought that +provided she could speak it would be something after the +following fashion:—</p> +<p>Accursed land! I hate thee; and, far from being a defence, +will invariably prove a thorn in thy side, a source of +humiliation and ignominy, a punishment for thy sorceries, thy +abominations and idolatries—thy cruelty, thy cowardice and +miserable pride; I will <!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 12</span>look on whilst thy navies are burnt +in my many bays, and thy armies perish before my eternal +walls—I will look on whilst thy revenues are defrauded and +ruined, and thy commerce becomes a bye word and a laughing-stock, +and I will exult the while and shout—‘I am an +instrument in the hand of the Lord, even I, the old volcanic +hill—I have pertained to the Moor and the Briton—they +have unfolded their banners from my heights, and I have been +content—I have belonged solely to the irrational beings of +nature, and no human hum invaded my solitudes; the eagle nestled +on my airy crags, and the tortoise and the sea-calf dreamed in my +watery caverns undisturbed; even then I was content, for I was +aloof from Spain and her sons. The days of my shame were +those when I was clasped in her embraces and was polluted by her +crimes; when I was a forced partaker in her bad faith, +soul-subduing tyranny, and degrading fanaticism; when I heard +only her bragging tongue, and was redolent of nought but the +breath of her smoke-loving borrachos; when I was a prison for her +convicts and a garrison for her rabble soldiery—Spain, +accursed land, I hate thee: may I, like my African neighbour, +become a house and a retreat only for vile baboons rather than +the viler Spaniard. May I sink beneath the billows, which +is my foretold fate, ere I become again a parcel of +Spain—accursed land, I hate thee, and so long as I can +uphold my brow will still look menacingly on Spain.’</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>Strong language this, it will perhaps be +observed—but when the rocks speak strong language may be +expected, and it is no slight matter which will set stones +a-speaking. Surely, if ever there was a time for Gibraltar +to speak, it is the present, and we leave it to our readers to +determine whether the above is not a real voice from Gibraltar +heard by ourselves one moonlight night at Algeziras, as with our +hands in our pockets we stood on the pier, staring across the bay +in the direction of the rock.</p> +<p>‘Poor Spain, unfortunate Spain!’ we have +frequently heard Spaniards exclaim. Were it worth while +asking the Spaniard a reason for anything he says or does, we +should be tempted to ask him why he apostrophizes his country in +this manner. If she is wretched and miserable and bleeding, +has she anything but what she richly deserves, and has brought +down upon her own head? By Spain we of course mean the +Spanish nation—for as for the country, it is so much +impassible matter, so much rock and sand, chalk and +clay—with which we have for the moment nothing to do. +It has pleased her to play an arrant jade’s part, the part +of a <i>mula falsa</i>, a vicious mule, and now, and not for the +first time, the brute has been chastised—there she lies on +the road amidst the dust, the blood running from her nose. +Did our readers ever peruse the book of the adventures of the +Squire Marcos de Obregon? <a name="citation13"></a><a +href="#footnote13" class="citation">[13]</a> No! How +should our <!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 14</span>readers have perused the scarce book +of the life and adventures of Obregon? never mind! we to whom it +has been given to hear the voice of Gibraltar whilst standing on +the pier of Algeziras one moonlight evening, with our hands in +our pockets, jingling the cuartos which they contained, have read +with considerable edification the adventures of the said Marcos, +and will tell the reader a story out of the book of his +life. So it came to pass that in one of his journeys the +Señor de Obregon found himself on the back of a mule, +which, to use his own expression, had the devil in her body, a +regular jade, which would neither allow herself to be shod or +saddled without making all the resistance in her power—was +in the habit of flinging herself down whenever she came to a +sandy place, and rolling over with her heels in the air. An +old muleteer, who observed her performing this last prank, took +pity on her rider, and said, “Gentleman student, I wish to +give you a piece of advice with respect to that +animal”—and then he gave Marcos the piece of advice, +which Marcos received with the respect due to a man of the +muleteer’s experience, and proceeded on his way. +Coming to a sandy place shortly after, he felt that the mule was, +as usual, about to give way to her <i>penchant</i>, whereupon, +without saying a word to any body, he followed the advice of the +muleteer and with a halter which he held in his hand struck with +all fury the jade between the two ears. Down fell the mule +in the dust, and, rolling on <!-- page 15--><a +name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>her side, +turned up the whites of her eyes. ‘And as I stood by +looking at her,’ said Marcos, ‘I was almost sorry +that I had struck her so hard, seeing how she turned up the +whites of her eyes. At length, however, I took a luncheon +of bread, and steeping it in wine from my bota, I thrust it +between her jaws, and thus revived her; and I assure you that +from that moment she never played any tricks with me, but behaved +both formally and genteelly under all circumstances, but +especially when going over sandy ground. I am told, +however, that as soon as I parted with her she fell into her old +pranks, refusing to be shod or saddled—rushing up against +walls and scarifying the leg of her rider, and flinging herself +down in all sandy places.’ Now we say, without the +slightest regard to contradiction, knowing that no one save a +Spaniard will contradict us, that Spain has invariably proved +herself just such a jade as the mule of the cavalier De Obregon: +with a kind and merciful rider what will she not do? Look +at her, how she refuses to be bridled or shod—how she +scarifies the poor man’s leg against rude walls, how ill +she behaves in sandy places, and how occasionally diving her head +between her fore-legs and kicking up behind she causes him to +perform a somersault in the air to the no small discomposure of +his Spanish gravity; but let her once catch a Tartar who will +give her the garrote right well between the ears, and she can +behave as well as any body. One of the best of her riders +was Charles the <!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 16</span>First. How the brute lay +floundering in the dust on the plains of Villalar, turning up the +whites of her eyes, the blood streaming thick from her dishonest +nose! There she lay, the Fleming staring at her, with the +garrote in his hand. That’s right, Fleming! give it +her again—and withhold the sopa till the very last +extremity.</p> +<p>Then there was Napoleon again, who made her taste the garrote; +she was quiet enough under him, but he soon left her and went to +ride other jades, and his place was filled by those who, though +they had no liking for her, had not vigour enough to bring her +down on her side. She is down, however, at present, if ever +she was in her life—blood streaming from her nose amidst +the dust, the whites of her eyes turned up very much, whilst +staring at her with uplifted garrote stands Narvaez.</p> +<p>Yes, there lies Spain, and who can pity her?—she could +kick off the kind and generous Espartero, who, though he had a +stout garrote in his hand, and knew what kind of conditioned +creature she was, forbore to strike her, to his own mighty cost +and damage. She kicked off him, and took up—whom? a +regular muleteer, neither more nor less. We have nothing +further to say about him; he is at present in his proper calling, +we bear him no ill-will, and only wish that God may speed +him. But never shall we forget the behaviour of the jade +some two years ago. O the yell that she set up, the true +mulish yell—knowing all <!-- page 17--><a +name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 17</span>the time that +she had nothing to fear from her rider, knowing that he would not +strike her between the ears. ‘Come here, you +scoundrel, and we will make a bell-clapper of your head, and of +your bowels a string to hang it by’—that was the cry +of the Barcelonese, presently echoed in every town and village +throughout Spain—and that cry was raised immediately after +he had remitted the mulct which he had imposed on Barcelona for +unprovoked rebellion. But the mule is quiet enough now; no +such yell is heard now at Barcelona, or in any nook or corner of +Spain. No, no—the Caballero was kicked out of the +saddle, and the muleteer sprang up—There she lies, the +brute! <i>Bien hecho</i>, <i>Narvaez</i>—Don’t +spare the garrote nor the mule!</p> +<p>It is very possible that from certain passages which we have +written above, some of our readers may come to the conclusion +that we must be partisans either of Espartero or Narvaez, perhaps +of both. In such case, however, they would do us +wrong. Having occasion at present to speak of Spain, we +could hardly omit taking some notice of what has been lately +going on in the country, and of the two principal performers in +the late <i>funcion</i>. We have not been inattentive +observers of it; and have, moreover, some knowledge of the +country; but any such feeling as partisanship we disclaim. +Of Narvaez, the muleteer, we repeat that we have nothing more to +say, his character is soon read. Of the caballero—of +<!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>Espartero, we take this opportunity of observing that +the opinion which we at first entertained of him, grounded on +what we had heard, was anything but favourable. We thought +him a grasping ambitious man; and, like many others in Spain, +merely wishing for power for the lust thereof; but we were soon +undeceived by his conduct when the reins of government fell into +his hand. That he was ambitious we have no doubt; but his +ambition was of the noble and generous kind; he wished to become +the regenerator of his country—to heal her sores, and at +the same time to reclaim her vices—to make her really +strong and powerful—and, above all, independent of +France. But all his efforts were foiled by the wilfulness +of the animal—she observed his gentleness, which she +mistook for fear, a common mistake with jades—gave a kick, +and good bye to Espartero! There is, however, one blot in +Espartero’s career; we allude to it with pain, for in every +other point we believe him to have been a noble and generous +character; but his treatment of Cordova cannot be commended on +any principle of honour or rectitude. Cordova was his +friend and benefactor, to whom he was mainly indebted for his +advancement in the army. Espartero was a brave soldier, +with some talent for military matters. But when did either +bravery or talent serve as credentials for advancement in the +Spanish service? He would have remained at the present day +a major or a colonel but for the friendship of Cordova, who, <!-- +page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>amongst other things, was a courtier, and who was raised +to the command of the armies of Spain by a court +intrigue—which command he resigned into the hands of +Espartero when the revolution of the Granja and the downfall of +his friends, the Moderados, compelled him to take refuge in +France. The friendship of Cordova and Espartero had been so +well known that for a long time it was considered that the latter +was merely holding the command till his friend might deem it safe +and prudent to return and resume it. Espartero, however, +had conceived widely different views. After the return of +Cordova to Spain he caused him to be exiled under some pretence +or other. He doubtless feared him, and perhaps with reason; +but the man had been his friend and benefactor, and to the +relations which had once existed between them Cordova himself +alludes in a manifesto which he printed at Badajoz when on his +way to Portugal, and which contains passages of considerable +pathos. Is there not something like retribution in the fact +that Espartero is now himself in exile?</p> +<p>Cordova! His name is at present all but forgotten, yet +it was at one time in the power of that man to have made himself +master of the destinies of Spain. He was at the head of the +army—was the favourite of Christina—and was, +moreover, in the closest connexion with the Moderado +party—the most unscrupulous, crafty, and formidable of all +the factions which in these latter times have appeared in the +bloody circus <!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 20</span>of Spain. But if ever there was +a man, a real man of flesh and blood, who in every tittle +answered to one of the best of the many well-drawn characters in +Le Sage’s wonderful novel—one of the masters of Gil +Blas, a certain Don Mathias, who got up at midday, and rasped +tobacco whilst lolling on the sofa, till the time arrived for +dressing and strolling forth to the prado—a thorough +Spanish coxcomb highly perfumed, who wrote love-letters to +himself bearing the names of noble ladies—brave withal and +ever ready to vindicate his honour at the sword’s point, +provided he was not called out too early of a morning—it +was this self-same Don Cordova, who we repeat had the destinies +of Spain at one time in his power, and who, had he managed his +cards well, and death had not intervened, might at the present +moment have occupied the self-same position which Narvaez fills +with so much credit to himself. The man had lots of +courage, was well versed in the art military; and once, to his +honour be it said, whilst commanding a division of the Christine +army, defeated Zumalacarregui in his own defiles; but, like Don +Mathias, he was fond of champagne suppers with actresses, and +would always postpone a battle for a ball or a horse-race. +About five years ago we were lying off Lisbon in a steamer in our +way from Spain. The morning was fine, and we were upon deck +staring vacantly about us, as is our custom, with our hands in +our pockets, when a large barge with an awning, and manned by +many <!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>rowers, came dashing through the water and touched the +vessel’s side. Some people came on board, of whom, +however, we took but little notice, continuing with our hands in +our pockets staring sometimes at the river, and sometimes at the +castle of Saint George, the most remarkable object connected with +the ‘white city,’ which strikes the eye from the +Tagus. In a minute or two the steward came running up to us +from the cabin, and said, ‘There are two or three strange +people below who seem to want something; but what it is we +can’t make out, for we don’t understand them. +Now I heard you talking ‘Moors’ the other day to the +black cook, so pray have the kindness to come and say two or +three words in Moors to the people below.’ Whereupon, +without any hesitation, we followed the steward into the +cabin. ‘Here’s one who can jabber Moors with +you,’ bawled he, bustling up to the new comers. On +observing the strangers, however, who sat on one of the sofas, +instead of addressing them in ‘Moors,’ we took our +hands out of our pockets, drew ourselves up, and making a most +ceremonious bow, exclaimed in pure and sonorous Castilian, +‘Cavaliers, at your feet! What may it please you to +command?’</p> +<p>The strangers, who had looked somewhat blank at the first +appearance of our figure, no sooner heard us address them in this +manner than they uttered a simultaneous ‘Ola!’ and, +springing up, advanced towards us with countenances irradiated +with smiles. <!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 22</span>They were three in number, to say +nothing of a tall loutish fellow with something of the look of a +domestic, who stood at some distance. All three were +evidently gentlemen—one was a lad about twenty, the other +might be some ten years older—but the one who stood between +the two, and who immediately confronted us, was evidently the +principal. He might be about forty, and was tall and rather +thin; his hair was of the darkest brown; his face strongly marked +and exceedingly expressive; his nose was fine, so was his +forehead, and his eyes sparkled like diamonds beneath a pair of +bushy brows slightly grizzled. He had one disagreeable +feature—his mouth—which was wide and sensual-looking +to a high degree. He was dressed with elegance—his +brown surtout was faultless; shirt of the finest Holland, frill +to correspond, and fine ruby pin. In a very delicate and +white hand he held a delicate white handkerchief perfumed with +the best atar-de-nuar of Abderrahman. ‘What can we +oblige you in, cavalier?’ said we, as we looked him in the +face: and then he took our hand, our brown hand, into his +delicate white one, and whispered something into our +ear—whereupon, turning round to the steward, we whispered +something into his ear. ‘I know nothing about +it,’ said the steward in a surly tone—we have nothing +of the kind on board—no such article or packet is come; and +I tell you what, I don’t half like these fellows; I believe +them to be custom-house spies: it was the custom-house barge <!-- +page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>they came in, so tell them in Moors to get about their +business.’ ‘The man is a barbarian, sir,’ +said we to the cavalier; ‘but what you expected is +certainly not come.’ A deep shade of melancholy came +over the countenance of the cavalier: he looked us wistfully in +the face, and sighed; then, turning to his companions, he said, +‘We are disappointed, but there is no remedy—Vamos, +amigos.’ Then, making us a low bow, he left the +cabin, followed by his friends. The boat was ready, and the +cavalier was about to descend the side of the vessel—we had +also come on deck—suddenly our eyes met. +‘Pardon a stranger, cavalier, if he takes the liberty of +asking your illustrious name.’ ‘General +Cordova,’ said the cavalier in an under voice. We +made our lowest bow, pressed our hand to our heart—he did +the same, and in another minute was on his way to the +shore. ‘Do you know who that was?’ said we to +the steward—‘that was the great General +Cordova.’ ‘Cordova, Cordova,’ said the +steward. ‘Well, I really believe I have something for +that name. A general do you say? What a fool I have +been—I suppose you couldn’t call him +back?’ The next moment we were at the ship’s +side shouting. The boat had by this time nearly reached the +Caesodrea, though, had it reached Cintra—but stay, Cintra +is six leagues from Lisbon—and, moreover, no boat unless +carried can reach Cintra. Twice did we lift up our +voice. At the second shout the boat rested on its oars; and +when we added ‘Caballeros, <!-- page 24--><a +name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 24</span>vengan +ustedes atras,’ its head was turned round in a jiffy, and +back it came bounding over the waters with twice its former +rapidity. We are again in the cabin; the three Spaniards, +the domestic, ourselves, and the steward; the latter stands with +his back against the door, for the purpose of keeping out +intruders. There is a small chest on the table, on which +all eyes are fixed; and now, at a sign from Cordova, the domestic +advances, in his hand a chisel, which he inserts beneath the lid +of the chest, exerting all the strength of his wrist—the +lid flies open, and discloses some hundreds of genuine Havannah +cigars. ‘What obligations am I not under to +you!’ said Cordova, again taking us by the hand, ‘the +very sight of them gives me new life; long have I been expecting +them. A trusty friend at Gibraltar promised to send them, +but they have tarried many weeks: but now to dispose of this +treasure.’ In a moment he and his friends were busily +employed in filling their pockets. Yes Cordova, the +renowned general, and the two secretaries of a certain legation +at Lisbon—for such were his two friends—are stowing +away the Havannah cigars with all the eagerness of +contrabandistas. ‘Rascal,’ said Cordova, +suddenly turning to his domestic with a furious air and regular +Spanish grimace, ‘you are doing nothing; why don’t +you take more?’ ‘I can’t hold any more, +your worship,’ replied the latter in a piteous tone. +‘My pockets are already full; and see how full I am +here,’ he continued, <!-- page 25--><a +name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 25</span>pointing to +his bosom. ‘Peace, bribon,’ said his master; +‘if your bosom is full, fill your hat, and put it on your +head. We owe you more than we can express,’ said he, +turning round and addressing us in the blandest tones. +‘But why all this mystery?’ we demanded. +‘O, tobacco is a royal monopoly here, you know, so we are +obliged to be cautious.’ ‘But you came in the +custom-house barge?’ ‘Yes, the superintendent +of the customs lent it to us in order that we might be put to as +little inconvenience as possible. Between ourselves, he +knows all about it; he is only solicitous to avoid any +scandal. Really these Portuguese have some slight tincture +of gentility in them, though they are neither Castilian nor +English,’ he continued, making us another low bow. On +taking his departure the general gave the steward an ounce of +gold, and having embraced us and kissed us on the cheek, said, +‘In a few weeks I shall be in England, pray come and see me +there.’ This we promised faithfully to do, but never +had the opportunity; he went on shore with his cigars, gave a +champagne supper to his friends, and the next morning was a +corpse. What a puff of smoke is the breath of man!</p> +<p>But here before us is a Hand-book for Spain. From what +we have written above it will have been seen that we are not +altogether unacquainted with the country; indeed we plead guilty +to having performed the grand tour of Spain more than once; but +why do we say guilty—it is scarcely a thing to be ashamed +of; <!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>the country is a magnificent one, and the people are a +highly curious people, and we are by no means sorry that we have +made the acquaintance of either. Detestation of the public +policy of Spain, and a hearty abhorrence of its state creed, we +consider by no means incompatible with a warm admiration for the +natural beauties of the country, and even a zest for Spanish life +and manners. We love a ride in Spain, and the company to be +found in a Spanish venta; but the Lord preserve us from the +politics of Spain, and from having anything to do with the +Spaniards in any graver matters than interchanging cigars and +compliments, meetings upon the road (peaceable ones of course), +kissing and embracing (see above). Whosoever wishes to +enjoy Spain or the Spaniards, let him go as a private individual, +the humbler in appearance the better: let him call every beggar +Cavalier, every Don a Señor Conde; praise the water of the +place in which he happens to be as the best of all water; and +wherever he goes he will meet with attention and sympathy. +‘The strange Cavalier is evidently the child of honourable +fathers, although, poor man, he appears to be, like myself, +unfortunate’—will be the ejaculation of many a proud +<i>tatterdemalion</i> who has been refused charity with formal +politeness—whereas should the stranger chuck him +contemptuously an ounce of gold, he may be pretty sure that he +has bought his undying hatred both in this world and the +next.</p> +<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>Here we have a Hand-book for Spain—we mean for +travellers in Spain—and of course for English +travellers. The various hand-books which our friend Mr. +Murray has published at different times are very well known, and +their merit generally recognized. We cannot say that we +have made use of any of them ourselves, yet in the course of our +peregrinations we have frequently heard travellers speak in terms +of high encomium of their general truth and exactness, and of the +immense mass of information which they contain. There is +one class of people, however, who are by no means disposed to +look upon these publications with a favourable eye—we mean +certain gentry generally known by the name of <i>valets de +place</i>, for whom we confess we entertain no particular +affection, believing them upon the whole to be about the most +worthless, heartless, and greedy set of miscreants to be found +upon the whole wide continent of Europe. These gentry, we +have reason to know, look with a by no means favourable eye upon +these far-famed publications of Albemarle-street. +‘They steal away our honest bread,’ said one of them +to us the other day at Venice, ‘<i>I Signori forestieri</i> +find no farther necessity for us since they have appeared; we are +thinking of petitioning the government in order that they may be +prohibited as heretical and republican. Were it not for +these accursed books I should now have the advantage of waiting +upon those <i>forestieri</i>’—and he pointed to a fat +English squire, who with a <!-- page 28--><a +name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span>blooming +daughter under each arm, was proceeding across the piazza to St. +Marco with no other guide than a ‘Murray,’ which he +held in his hand. High, however, as was the opinion which +we had formed of these Hand-books from what we had heard +concerning them, we were utterly unprepared for such a treat as +has been afforded us by the perusal of the one which now lies +before us—the Hand-book for Spain.</p> +<p>It is evidently the production of a highly-gifted and +accomplished man of infinite cleverness, considerable learning, +and who is moreover thoroughly acquainted with the subject of +which he treats. That he knows Spain as completely as he +knows the lines upon the palm of his hand, is a fact which cannot +fail of forcing itself upon the conviction of any person who +shall merely glance over the pages; yet this is a book not to be +glanced over, for we defy any one to take it up without being +seized with an irresistible inclination to peruse it from the +beginning to the end—so flowing and captivating is the +style, and so singular and various are the objects and events +here treated of. We have here a perfect panorama of Spain, +to accomplish which we believe to have been the aim and intention +of the author; and gigantic as the conception was, it is but +doing him justice to say that in our opinion he has fully worked +it out. But what iron application was required for the +task—what years of enormous labour must have been spent in +carrying it into effect even after the necessary materials had +been collected—and then the <!-- page 29--><a +name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>collecting of +the materials themselves—what strange ideas of difficulty +and danger arise in our minds at the sole mention of that most +important point! But here is the work before us; the +splendid result of the toil, travel, genius, and learning of one +man, and that man an Englishman. The above is no +overstrained panegyric; we refer our readers to the work itself, +and then fearlessly abandon the matter to their decision. +We have here all Spain before us; mountain, plain, and river, +<i>poblado y desploblado</i>—the well known and the +mysterious—Barcelona and Batuecas.</p> +<p>Amidst all the delight and wonder which we have felt, we +confess that we have been troubled by an impertinent thought of +which we could not divest ourselves. We could not help +thinking that the author, generous enough as he has been to the +public, has been rather unjust to himself—by publishing the +result of his labours under the present title. A Hand-book +is a Hand-book after all, a very useful thing, but +still—The fact is that we live in an age of humbug, in +which every thing to obtain much note and reputation must depend +less upon its own intrinsic merits than on the name it +bears. The present work is about one of the best books ever +written upon Spain; but we are afraid that it will never be +estimated at its proper value; for after all a Hand-book is a +Hand-book. Permit us, your Ladyship, to introduce to you +the learned, talented, and imaginative author of +the—shocking! Her Ladyship would faint, and would +<!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>never again admit ourselves and our friends to her +<i>soirées</i>. What a pity that this delightful +book does not bear a more romantic sounding +title—’Wanderings in Spain,’ for example; or +yet better, ‘The Wonders of the Peninsula.’</p> +<p>But are we not ourselves doing our author injustice? Aye +surely; the man who could write a book of the character of the +one which we have at present under notice, is above all such +paltry considerations, so we may keep our pity for +ourselves. If it please him to cast his book upon the +waters in the present shape, what have we to do but to be +grateful?—we forgot for a moment with what description of +man we have to do. This is no vain empty coxcomb; he cannot +but be aware that he has accomplished a great task; but such +paltry considerations as those to which we have alluded above are +not for him but for writers of a widely different stamp with whom +we have nothing to do.</p> +<h3><span class="smcap">What to observe in Spain</span>.</h3> +<p>Before we proceed to point out the objects best worth seeing +in the Peninsula, many of which are to be seen there only, it may +be as well to mention what is <i>not</i> to be seen: there is no +such loss of time as finding this out oneself, after weary chace +and wasted hour. Those who expect to find well-garnished +arsenals, libraries, restaurants, charitable or literary +institutions, canals, railroads, tunnels, suspension-bridges, +<!-- page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>steam-engines, omnibuses, manufactories, polytechnic +galleries, pale-ale breweries, and similar appliances and +appurtenances of a high state of political, social, and +commercial civilisation, had better stay at home. In Spain +there are no turnpike-trust meetings, no quarter-sessions, no +courts of <i>justice</i>, according to the real meaning of that +word, no treadmills, no boards of guardians, no chairmen, +directors, masters-extraordinary of the court of chancery, no +assistant poor-law commissioners. There are no +anti-tobacco-teetotal-temperance meetings, no auxiliary +missionary propagating societies, nothing in the blanket and +lying-in asylum line, nothing, in short, worth a revising +barrister of three years’ standing’s notice. +Spain is no country for the political economist, beyond affording +an example of the decline of the wealth of nations, and offering +a wide topic on errors to be avoided, as well as for experimental +theories, plans of reform and amelioration. In Spain, +Nature reigns; she has there lavished her utmost prodigality of +soil and climate which a bad government has for the last three +centuries been endeavouring to counteract. <i>El cielo y +suelo es bueno</i>, <i>el entresuelo malo</i>, and man, the +occupier of the Peninsula <i>entresol</i>, uses, or rather +abuses, with incurious apathy the goods with which the gods have +provided him. Spain is a <i>terra incognita</i> to +naturalists, geologists, and every branch of ists and +ologists. The material is as superabundant as native +labourers and operatives are deficient. All <!-- page +32--><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 32</span>these +interesting branches of inquiry, healthful and agreeable, as +being out-of-door pursuits, and bringing the amateur in close +contact with nature, offer to embryo authors, who are ambitious +to <i>book something new</i>, a more worthy subject than the +<i>decies repetita</i> descriptions of bull-fights and the +natural history of ollas and ventas. Those who aspire to +the romantic, the poetical, the sentimental, the artistical, the +antiquarian, the classical, in short, to any of the sublime and +beautiful lines, will find both in the past and present state of +Spain subjects enough, in wandering with lead-pencil and +note-book through this singular country, which hovers between +Europe and Africa, between civilisation and barbarism; this is +the land of the green valley and barren mountain, of the +boundless plain and the broken sierra, now of Elysian gardens of +the vine, the olive, the orange, and the aloe, then of trackless, +vast, silent, uncultivated wastes, the heritage of the wild +bee. Here we fly from the dull uniformity, the polished +monotony of Europe, to the racy freshness of an original, +unchanged country, where antiquity treads on the heels of to-day, +where Paganism disputes the very altar with Christianity, where +indulgence and luxury contend with privation and poverty, where a +want of all that is generous or merciful is blended with the most +devoted heroic virtues, where the most cold-blooded cruelty is +linked with the fiery passions of Africa, where ignorance and +erudition stand in violent and striking contrast.</p> +<p><!-- page 33--><a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +33</span>Here let the antiquarian pore over the stirring +memorials of many thousand years, the vestiges of Phœnician +enterprise, of Roman magnificence, of Moorish elegance, in that +storehouse of ancient customs, that repository of all elsewhere +long forgotten and passed by; here let him gaze upon those +classical monuments, unequalled almost in Greece or Italy, and on +those fairy Aladdin palaces, the creatures of Oriental +gorgeousness and imagination, with which Spain alone can enchant +the dull European; here let the man of feeling dwell on the +poetry of her envy-disarming decay, fallen from her high estate, +the dignity of a dethroned monarch, borne with unrepining +self-respect, the last consolation of the innately noble, which +no adversity can take away; here let the lover of art feed his +eyes with the mighty masterpieces of Italian art, when Raphael +and Titian strove to decorate the palaces of Charles, the great +emperor of the age of Leo X., or with the living nature of +Velazquez and Murillo, whose paintings are truly to be seen in +Spain alone; here let the artist sketch the lowly mosque of the +Moor, the lofty cathedral of the Christian, in which God is +worshipped in a manner as nearly befitting His glory as the power +and wealth of finite man can reach; art and nature here offer +subjects, from the feudal castle, the vasty Escorial, the +rock-built alcazar of imperial Toledo, the sunny towers of +stately Seville, to the eternal snows and lovely vega of Granada: +let the geologist clamber <!-- page 34--><a +name="page34"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 34</span>over +mountains of marble, and metal-pregnant sierras, let the botanist +cull from the wild hothouse of nature plants unknown, unnumbered, +matchless in colour, and breathing the aroma of the sweet south; +let all, learned or unlearned, listen to the song, the guitar, +the Castanet; let all mingle with the gay, good-humoured, +temperate peasantry, the finest in the world, free, manly, and +independent, yet courteous and respectful; let all live with the +noble, dignified, high-bred, self-respecting Spaniard; let all +share in their easy, courteous society; let all admire their +dark-eyed women, so frank and natural, to whom the voice of all +ages and nations has conceded the palm of attraction, to whom +Venus has bequeathed her magic girdle of grace and fascination; +let all—<i>sed ohe</i>! <i>jam satis</i>—enough for +starting on this expedition, where, as Don Quixote said, there +are opportunities for what are called adventures elbow deep.</p> +<p>The following account of the rivers of Spain would do credit +to the pen of Robertson:—</p> +<blockquote><p>‘There are six great rivers in +Spain,—the arteries which run between the seven mountain +chains, the vertebras of the geological skeleton. These six +watersheds are each intersected in their extent by others on a +minor scale, by valleys and indentations, in each of which runs +its own stream. Thus the rains and melted snows are all +collected in an infinity of ramifications, and carried by these +tributary conduits into one of the six main trunks, or great +rivers: all these, <!-- page 35--><a name="page35"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 35</span>with the exception of the Ebro, empty +themselves into the Atlantic. The Duero and Tagus, +unfortunately for Spain, disembogue in Portugal, thus becoming a +portion of a foreign dominion exactly where their commercial +importance is the greatest. Philip II. saw the true value +of the possession of Portugal, which rounded and consolidated +Spain, and insured to her the possession of these valuable +outlets of internal produce, and inlets for external +commerce. Portugal annexed to Spain gave more real power to +his throne than the dominion of entire continents across the +Atlantic. The <i>Miño</i>, which is the shortest of +these rivers, runs through a bosom of fertility. The +<i>Tajo</i>, Tagus, which the fancy of poets has sanded with gold +and embanked with roses, tracks much of its dreary way through +rocks and comparative barrenness. The <i>Guadiana</i> +creeps through lonely Estremadura, infecting the low plains with +miasma. The <i>Guadalquivir</i> eats out its deep banks +amid the sunny olive-clad regions of Andalucia, as the Ebro +divides the levels of Arragon. Spain abounds with brackish +streams, <i>Salados</i>, and with salt-mines, or saline deposits, +after the evaporation of the sea-waters. The central soil +is strongly impregnated with saltpetre: always arid, it every day +is becoming more so, from the singular antipathy which the +inhabitants of the interior have against trees. There is +nothing to check the power of evaporation, no shelter to protect +or preserve moisture. The soil becomes more <!-- page +36--><a name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 36</span>and +more baked and calcined; in some parts it has almost ceased to be +available for cultivation: another serious evil, which arises +from want of plantations, is, that the slopes of hills are +everywhere liable to constant denudation of soil after heavy +rain. There is nothing to break the descent of the water; +hence the naked, barren stone summits of many of the sierras, +which have been pared and peeled of every particle capable of +nourishing vegetation; they are skeletons where life is +extinct. Not only is the soil thus lost, but the detritus +washed down either forms bars at the mouths of rivers, or chokes +up and raises their beds; they are thus rendered liable to +overflow their banks, and convert the adjoining plains into +pestilential swamps. The supply of water, which is afforded +by periodical rains, and which ought to support the reservoirs of +rivers, is carried off at once in violent floods, rather than in +a gentle gradual disembocation. The volume in the principal +rivers of Spain has diminished, and is diminishing. Rivers +which were navigable are so no longer; the artificial canals +which were to have been substituted remain unfinished: the +progress of deterioration advances, while little is done to +counteract or amend what every year must render more difficult +and expensive, while the means of repair and correction will +diminish in equal proportion, from the poverty occasioned by the +evil, and by the fearful extent which it will be allowed to +attain. The rivers which are really adapted to <!-- page +37--><a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +37</span>navigation are, however, only those which are +perpetually fed by those tributary streams that flow down from +mountains which are covered with snow all the year, and these are +not many. The majority of Spanish rivers are very scanty of +water during the summer time, and very rapid in their flow when +filled by rains or melting snow: during these periods they are +impracticable for boats. They are, moreover, much exhausted +by being drained off, bled, for the purposes of artificial +irrigation. The scarcity of rain in the central table-lands +is much against a regular supply of water to the springs of the +rivers: the water is soon sucked up by a parched, dusty, and +thirsty soil, or evaporated by the dryness of the +atmosphere. Many of the <i>sierras</i> are indeed covered +with snow, but to no great depth, and the coating soon melts +under the summer suns, and passes rapidly away.’</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Here we have a sunny little sketch of a certain locality at +Seville; it is too life-like not to have been taken on the +spot:—</p> +<blockquote><p>‘The sunny flats under the old Moorish +walls, which extend between the gates of <i>Carmona</i> and <i>La +Carne</i>, are the haunts of idlers and of gamesters. The +lower classes of Spaniards are constantly gambling at cards: +groups are to be seen playing all day long for wine, love, or +coppers, in the sun, or under their vine-trellises. There +is generally some well-known cock of the walk, a bully, or +<i>guapo</i>, who will come up and lay his hands on the cards, +and say, ‘No one shall play <!-- page 38--><a +name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 38</span>here but with +mine’—<i>aquí no se juega sino con mis +barajas</i>. If the gamblers are cowed, they give him +<i>dos cuartos</i>, a halfpenny each. If, however, one of +the challenged be a spirited fellow, he defies him. +<i>Aquí no se cobra el barato sino con un punal de +Albacete</i>—‘You get no change here except out of an +Albacete knife.’ If the defiance be accepted, +<i>vamos alla</i> is the answer—‘Let’s go to +it.’ There’s an end then of the cards, all +flock to the more interesting <i>écarté</i>; +instances have occurred, where Greek meets Greek, of their tying +the two advanced feet together, and yet remaining fencing with +knife and cloak for a quarter of an hour before the blow be +dealt. The knife is held firmly, the thumb is pressed +straight on the blade, and calculated either for the cut or +thrust, to chip bread and kill men.’</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Apropos of Seville. It is sometimes called we believe La +Capital de Majeza; the proper translation of which we conceive to +be the Head Quarters of Foolery, for nothing more absurd and +contemptible than this Majeza ever came within the sphere of our +contemplation. Nevertheless it constitutes the chief glory +of the Sevillians. Every Sevillian, male or female, rich or +poor, handsome or ugly, aspires at a certain period of life to +the character of the majo or maja. We are not going to +waste either space or time by entering into any lengthened detail +of this ridiculous nonsense: indeed, it is quite unnecessary; +almost every one of the books published on Spain, <!-- page +39--><a name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 39</span>and +their name at present is legion, being crammed with details of +this same Majeza—a happy combination of insolence, +ignorance, frippery, and folly. The majo or Tomfool struts +about the streets dressed something like a merry Andrew with +jerkin and tight hose, a faja or girdle of crimson silk round his +waist, in which is sometimes stuck a dagger, his neck exposed, +and a queer kind of half-peaked hat on his head. He smokes +continually, thinks there is no place like Seville, and that he +is the prettiest fellow in Seville. His favourite word is +‘Carajo!’ The maja or she-simpleton, wears a +fan and mantilla, exhibits a swimming and affected gait, thinks +that there’s no place like Seville, that she is the flower +of Seville—Carai! is her favourite exclamation. But +enough of these poor ridiculous creatures. Yet, ridiculous +in every respect as they are, these majos and majas find +imitators and admirers in people who might be expected to look +down with contempt upon them and their follies; we have seen, and +we tell it with shame, we have seen Englishmen dressed in +Tomfool’s livery lounging about Seville breathing out smoke +and affecting the airs of hijos de Sevilla; and what was yet +worse, fair blooming Englishwomen, forgetful of their rank as +daughters of England, appearing à la maja on the banks of +the Guadalquivir, with fan and mantilla, carai and caramba. +We wish sincerely that our countrymen and women whilst travelling +abroad would always bear in mind that they <!-- page 40--><a +name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 40</span>can only be +respected or respectable so long as they maintain their proper +character—that of Englishmen and Englishwomen;—but in +attempting to appear French, Italians, and Spaniards, they only +make themselves supremely ridiculous. As the tree falls, so +must it lie. They are children of England; they cannot +alter that fact, therefore let them make the most of it, and +after all it is no bad thing to be a child of England. But +what a poor feeble mind must be his who would deny his country +under any circumstances! Therefore, gentle English +travellers, when you go to Seville, amongst other places, appear +there as English, though not obtrusively, and do not disgrace +your country by imitating the airs and graces of creatures whom +the other Spaniards, namely, Castilians, Manchegans, Aragonese, +&c., pronounce to be fools.</p> +<h3>THE NORMANS IN SPAIN.</h3> +<blockquote><p>‘In the ninth century, the Normans or +Northmen made piratical excursions on the W. coast of +Spain. They passed, in 843, from Lisbon up to the straits +and everywhere, as in France, overcame the unprepared natives, +plundering, burning, and destroying. They captured even +Seville itself, September 30, 844, but were met by the Cordovese +Kalif, beaten, and expelled. They were called by the Moors +<i>Majus</i>, <i>Madjous</i>, <i>Magioges</i> (Conde, i. 282), +and by the early Spanish annalists <i>Almajuzes</i>. The +root has been <!-- page 41--><a name="page41"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 41</span>erroneously derived from +Μιyος, Magus, magicians or supernatural +beings, as they were almost held to be. The term +<i>Madjous</i> was, strictly speaking, applied by the Moors to +those Berbers and Africans who were Pagans or Muwallads, +<i>i.e.</i> not believers in the Khoran. The true etymology +is that of the Gog and Magog so frequently mentioned by Ezekiel +(xxxviii. and xxxix.) and in the Revelations (xx. 8) as ravagers +of the earth and nations, May-Gogg, “he that +dissolveth,”—the fierce Normans appeared, coming no +one knew from whence, just when the minds of men were trembling +at the approach of the millennium, and thus were held to be the +forerunners of the destroyers of the world. This name of +indefinite gigantic power survived in the <i>Mogigangas</i>, or +terrific images, which the Spaniards used to parade in their +religious festivals, like the Gogs and Magogs of our civic wise +men of the East. Thus Andalucia being the half-way point +between the N. and S.E., became the meeting-place of the two +great ravaging swarms which have desolated Europe: here the +stalwart children of frozen Norway, the worshippers of Odin, +clashed against the Saracens from torrid Arabia, the followers of +Mahomet. Nor can a greater proof be adduced of the power +and relative superiority of the Cordovese Moors over the other +nations of Europe, than this, their successful resistance to +those fierce invaders, who overran without difficulty the coasts +of England, France, Apulia, and Sicily: conquerors everywhere +<!-- page 42--><a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +42</span>else, here they were driven back in disgrace. +Hence the bitter hatred of the Normans against the Spanish Moors, +hence their alliances with the Catalans, where a Norman +impression yet remains in architecture; but, as in Sicily, these +barbarians, unrecruited from the North, soon died away, or were +assimilated as usual with the more polished people, whom they had +subdued by mere superiority of brute force.’</p> +</blockquote> +<p>If the Moors called the Norsemen Al Madjus, which according to +our author signifies Gog and Magog, the Norsemen retorted by a +far more definite and expressive nickname; this was Blue-skins or +Bluemen, doubtless in allusion to the livid countenances of the +Moors. The battles between the Moors and the Northmen are +frequently mentioned in the Sagas, none of which, however, are of +higher antiquity than the eleventh century. In none of +these chronicles do we find any account of this raid upon Seville +in 844; it was probably a very inconsiderable affair magnified by +the Moors and their historians. Snorre speaks of the +terrible attack of Sigurd, surnamed the Jorsal wanderer, or +Jerusalem pilgrim, upon Lisbon and Cintra, both of which places +he took, destroying the Moors by hundreds. He subsequently +‘harried’ the southern coasts of Spain on his voyage +to Constantinople. But this occurred some two hundred years +after the affair of Seville mentioned in the Handbook. It +does not appear that the Norse ever made any serious attempt to +<!-- page 43--><a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +43</span>establish their power in Spain; had they done so we have +no doubt that they would have succeeded. We entertain all +due respect for the courage and chivalry of the Moors, especially +those of Cordova, but we would have backed the Norse, especially +the pagan Norse, against the best of them. The Biarkemal +would soon have drowned the Moorish ‘Lelhies.’</p> +<blockquote><p>‘Thou Har, who grip’st thy foeman<br +/> +Right hard, and Rolf the bowman,<br /> +And many, many others,<br /> +The forky lightning’s brothers,<br /> +Wake—not for banquet table,<br /> +Wake—not with maids to gabble,<br /> +But wake for rougher sporting,<br /> +For Hildur’s bloody courting.’</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Under the head of La Mancha our author has much to say on the +subject of Don Quixote; and to the greater part of what he says +we yield our respectful assent. His observations upon the +two principal characters in that remarkable work display much +sound as well as original criticism. We cannot however +agree with him in preferring the second part, which we think a +considerable falling off from the first. We should scarcely +believe the two parts were written by the same hand. We +have read through both various times, but we have always sighed +on coming to the conclusion of the first. It was formerly +our custom to read the Don ‘pervasively’ once every +<!-- page 44--><a name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +44</span>three years; we still keep up that custom <i>in +part</i>, and hope to do so whilst life remains. We say +<i>in part</i>, because we now conclude with the first part going +no farther. We have little sympathy with the pranks played +off upon Sancho and his master by the Duke and Duchess, to the +description of which so much space is devoted; and as for the +affair of Sancho’s government at Barataria, it appears to +us full of inconsistency and absurdity. Barataria, we are +told, was a place upon the Duke’s estate, consisting of two +or three thousand inhabitants; and of such a place it was very +possible for a nobleman to have made the poor squire governor; +but we no sooner get to Barataria than we find ourselves not in a +townlet, but in a <i>capital</i> in Madrid. The governor at +night makes his rounds, attended by ‘an immense +watch;’ he wanders from one street to another for hours; he +encounters all kinds of adventures, not mock but real adventures, +and all kinds of characters, not mock but real characters; there +is talk of bull-circuses, theatres, gambling-houses, and such +like; and all this in a place of two or three thousand +inhabitants, in which, by the way, nothing but a cat is ever +heard stirring after eight o’clock; this we consider to be +carrying the joke rather too far; and it is not Sancho but the +reader who is joked with. But the first part is a widely +different affair: all the scenes are admirable. Should we +live a thousand years, we should never forget the impression made +upon us by the adventure <!-- page 45--><a +name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 45</span>of the +corpse, where the Don falls upon the priests who are escorting +the bier by torch light, and by the sequel thereto, his midnight +adventures in the Brown Mountain. We can only speak of +these scenes as astonishing—they have never been equalled +in their line. There is another wonderful book which +describes what we may call the city life of Spain, as the other +describes the vida del campo—we allude of course to Le +Sage’s novel, which as a whole we prefer to Don Quixote, +the characters introduced being certainly more true to nature +than those which appear in the other great work. Shame to +Spain that she has not long since erected a statue to Le Sage, +who has done so much to illustrate her; but miserable envy and +jealousy have been at the bottom of the feeling ever manifested +in Spain towards that illustrious name. There are some few +stains in the grand work of Le Sage. He has imitated +without acknowledgment three or four passages contained in the +life of Obregon, a curious work, of which we have already spoken, +and to which on some future occasion we may perhaps revert.</p> +<p>But the Hand-book? We take leave of it with the highest +respect and admiration for the author; and recommend it not only +to travellers in Spain, but to the public in general, as a work +of a very high order, written <i>con amore</i> by a man who has +devoted his whole time, talents, and all the various treasures of +an extensive learning to its execution. We repeat that <!-- +page 46--><a name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +46</span>we were totally unprepared for such a literary treat as +he has here placed before us. It is our sincere wish that +at his full convenience he will favour us with something which +may claim consanguinity with the present work. It hardly +becomes us to point out to an author subjects on which to +exercise his powers. We shall, however, take the liberty of +hinting that a good history of Spain does not exist, at least in +English—and that not even Shelton produced a satisfactory +translation of the great gem of Spanish literature, ‘The +Life and Adventures of Don Quixote.’</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 47--><a +name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 47</span><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for <span class="smcap">Thomas J. 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