The dealings of God, man, and the devil : as exemplified in the life, experience, and travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a period of over half a century : together with his polemic and miscellaneous writings, complete : to which is added The vicissitudes of life, by Peggy Dow . ry had relievedSpain of the care of, and responsibility for, the PhilippineIslands. Apropos of the heir, who arrived after we left INIadrid, Ifound my diplomatic friends in a flutter over the uncertaintyof the date of arrival. It is the custom for the chiefs of missionto be called to the palace on such occasions, when the new b
The dealings of God, man, and the devil : as exemplified in the life, experience, and travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a period of over half a century : together with his polemic and miscellaneous writings, complete : to which is added The vicissitudes of life, by Peggy Dow . ry had relievedSpain of the care of, and responsibility for, the PhilippineIslands. Apropos of the heir, who arrived after we left INIadrid, Ifound my diplomatic friends in a flutter over the uncertaintyof the date of arrival. It is the custom for the chiefs of missionto be called to the palace on such occasions, when the new borninfant is exhibited to them, as a precaution, it is said, againstsubstitution. The time for the birth had been set for the 10thof April, and I arrived the 20th of that month. As a joke Itold my friends of the corps that as a family man I would makethem a prediction, — namely, that a month from the timefirst set would elapse before the birth, wliich would come the10th of May. As good fortune would have it, the heir arrivedon tliat day, and His ^lajcsty sent me special tlianks for myprecHction through our minister. We should have been in-vited to the christening had we remained in Madrid; and asit was, we were invited to tlie investiture of a cardinal, in the. C 05 THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LISRAR^ A^TOR, ;fOX ANDTILI/KN FOONDATir-S« L TRAVEL AND SOCIETY 365 chapel of the palace, where we occupied the private box of thecourt chamberlain. In a sightseeing way we visited the Prado, which CarolusDuran calls the finest picture gallery in the w^orld, also othergalleries and churches. A visit would not be complete without seeing a bull fight, andwe had a box at what was said to be the most interesting one ofthe season. We also visited Toledo, saw two review^s and asocialistic procession, and bought souvenirs, in the shapeof Spanish fans and mantillas. Leaving with regret, we went to Paris early in ^lay, stoppingover at Biarritz, which is destined to become a great wateringplace.
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