Spain As She Is Viewed

Oom a Geograipháca: Vi w ■ "'.'ae Wo XI," poiibUishied ín 1839, by H ■■.-. .1. : - 1 1 l : t i , quiíf a tew cha pi :U'"iU'.l tu Spain, n ii'. 1 li ■'■!■ i; a sainple paragrapli ". 'aa; in.ty ro_ oí; intares1 i b a: ' oí our ■■ ■ i lera aovv : "LiPiv n:i'M' ÍS i a ÏOW '■!)!) i'i i lis aoiiatrj ; Ui&ro r,w. üawever, upiva'.'ds OS twemty u:iv. .: -!. i ■-. u( wi.Aea the mast ttoted isíiial ; SallauDamaca, i. j ■. ;.n ;iod :a tte year íu'oo, by A p' ons i 'ílue WSsei. There navu been as mjíuay ae 16.000 students Itere ab vine same time, nafficieait tu darkea tibe face of thie eartli ; for tho Bjtrbems of Artetotíie aiwl Thomas Aquúnjas c.nninuo unviojateil, o thiat pnogeny oí (lances proceeds." And wha.1 wafi trne iai 1S3Í) ÓT prev.í.ius, is more tliiam t:-ue o-ctay. t'ipa.i liías ii.)i riissn but oven vctrog-raded sinoe 'Jhiat time. üi aanusements vtoe Bays ; "There are vwo tiaeatres at Madrid, bnt tlie peri&nmainces are wretched. Wtnea. the ave-bed ninga, all vshe aetu s. as -wp-jl as tlie auidiienoe iall down apon thieñir knees, and remain bo ïor seyeral miJnutee. Tlie buil feasts are lln nij.st iavaurite eutertairanents." ll.Tf is amotJier peouL'iiar trait : "In every laage odty in. öpain i-hie-re i a [oancBng hiospital, iato whioh all i.'en ave readlly admifcted, belongIng to itoe Jower classes út tradesmen, l:.i h.ave families chan they eau support. Wben the pansits cho se iniviim tiieii' child, they may ii. agaio, by properly Üescrltotog it.'In a verj' luterestlng book in the Questlions of thie Day series, pub:lhed by Putiuwu's Sons, aatibled ''SlaT Sasm," by Wm. D. Fouike, liad tliis very pertinent paragrap-h : r-païn gvew wii.li miarveCious rapidIty. It was bnt a ffle-ttne trom the ana:cliy which pTecedöd the reign oi Feiüaand and Isabeüia to tli.e (jreat empiiire oí CImu jes A".; bat umder the tafiuence oí a baieful eccleslaBtlcism, the work af decay was as rapddi as tlaat oï gTffvrth. Spain liaid a lxuiidjess empine ia tlie New World, and she trid tio coiomiza bnt failed. The e'jenionts oí progresa were ivantiug, disinteg-iation began, one colony aiter aii'Otituer drojiped away, the defects of 'clve pareat stock repeated thiemseivee in tIlb oifsprkig, and in the Spandsh-Amerlcan coCoaiies, with ïiew laind and new pwiltical Instltutiujis, we hiave tbe premature oiid age inljierited with Bpauleh b;.oi.d. In Spain i'tselí t very t hing reminde us of past greatmess a.md present weakness. It is a lanid oí memory aad, nat of Eufpe."