The Burton Holmes lectures; . THROUGH THE HEART OF THE MOORISH EMPIRE. HROUGH THE HEART OF THli MOORLSH EMPIRE THE spell of in}stery is still upon Morocco. The Moorsare still the people of romance. Of the land we knowcomparatively little ; of the race as it exists to-da} we knowstill less. Christendom assumes that the Moorish Empireexpired with the last sit^h of Boabdil. lea\injj the .Vlhambraas its only legac}. Almost novel is the thou.^ht that the Moors still li\e as anation ; that Morocco is to-da} what Spain would havebecome had the forces of the Prophet prevailed in the Penin-sula. Who wo
The Burton Holmes lectures; . THROUGH THE HEART OF THE MOORISH EMPIRE. HROUGH THE HEART OF THli MOORLSH EMPIRE THE spell of in}stery is still upon Morocco. The Moorsare still the people of romance. Of the land we knowcomparatively little ; of the race as it exists to-da} we knowstill less. Christendom assumes that the Moorish Empireexpired with the last sit^h of Boabdil. lea\injj the .Vlhambraas its only legac}. Almost novel is the thou.^ht that the Moors still li\e as anation ; that Morocco is to-da} what Spain would havebecome had the forces of the Prophet prevailed in the Penin-sula. Who would not welcome as a precious privile<^e thepossibility of turninj^ back the pages of history in Spain, torevel in the actual Moorish life as it was lived before theChristian victories of 1492 . Who would not gladly leave, atleast for a short space, the familiar round of present-da\ THE MOORISH EMPIRE existence ami the hackneNed paths of travel, to plunt^e into apast so picturesque, to see a civilization so refined and yet soutterly unlike our own ? No reader of
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