. The land of the Dons. onand gentle manners promise not a little. Nomi-nally, his earliest acts have been the celebra-tion of a military review, and the publication, insomewhat tumid terms, of an address to his armyand navy; but it is clear from the wording ofthis document that the young King is no more itsauthor than I am the author of the Letters of has merely appended his signature. Doubtless,as time progresses, he will prefer his own initiativeto that of interested parties, and appreciate moredirectly the peaceable and commercial aspirationsof his people. Some of the influences
. The land of the Dons. onand gentle manners promise not a little. Nomi-nally, his earliest acts have been the celebra-tion of a military review, and the publication, insomewhat tumid terms, of an address to his armyand navy; but it is clear from the wording ofthis document that the young King is no more itsauthor than I am the author of the Letters of has merely appended his signature. Doubtless,as time progresses, he will prefer his own initiativeto that of interested parties, and appreciate moredirectly the peaceable and commercial aspirationsof his people. Some of the influences in the present conditionof Spain are contradictory and conflicting. She isnot a bankrupt power. She does not seem to be amoribund power. But it is undeniable that she is ina state of prostration. Her infirmity may be likened,not to those attending on old age, but to a sicknesssuffered during the prime of life, or even this very reason a valid judgment becomesmore difficult to pronounce; for while in the case. {.To face p. 370.) (trom a photograph by , Madrid.) DON ALFONSO THE THIRTEENTH. THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT. 37i of a patient sinking under natural decline onemay predict with confidence impending dissolution,in the case of younger patients, valetudinarianswhose strength is fairly battling with disease, it isonly the very skilled, or else the very rash observer,who will adventure any opinion at all. Personally, I am not a little hopeful as to Spainsrecovery. Her resources have been taxed, but notexhausted. Her suffering is great; but her vigorseems equal to resisting it. Indeed, it is astoundingto consider what she has already survived. I havebriefly exemplified the hideous malady which tor-mented her, with but little intermission, for overthree hundred and fifty years. The Hapsburgdynasty and everything about it was rotten andpernicious. Kings were bad, ministers were bad,priests were bad, and the common people, by forceof example, were bad also, though
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