Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . imposing. The streets are nar-row, tortuous, badly eleven thousand ortwelve thousand houses inthe town are very solidlybuilt, and any one of anyimportance has a great court-yard surrounded by galleries,supported l^y columns, andhas
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . imposing. The streets are nar-row, tortuous, badly eleven thousand ortwelve thousand houses inthe town are very solidlybuilt, and any one of anyimportance has a great court-yard surrounded by galleries,supported l^y columns, andhas fountains in the entrance to each of thesepatios, as the courts arecalled, is closed by a door ofopen iron-work, in which theartisans of Seville are veryadroit. In sunnner, whentlie intense heat falls ui)onthis ]>lain, the inhabitantsof Seville live entirely in these opencourts, over which they spread gaylycolored awnings. They desert theirsleeping-rooms and lie on cool couches inthe corridors, lulled to rest by the musicof the fountains. But, as nothing is per-fc(!t in this life, they have a compensat-ing torment in the omnipresent mosquito. The foundation of Seville is variouslyattributed to Hercules, to Bacchus, to the Hebrews, to the Chaldeans, and tothe Phoenicians. What is certain aboutthe old towns history is, that its inhali-. A PATIO IN SEVILLE. itants have always manifested a Parisiandiscontent with their sovereigns andforms of government; that they havesustained three sieges, two of which areamong the most remarkable in history ;that they revolted against the King ofCordova in the eleventh century, andset up a King of Seville for themselves ;were brought l)ack under the empire ofthe sovereigns of Cordova ; raised anew 128 EUROPE IX SrORM AND CALM. the standard of rebellion in 114:4, andagain chose a king whose descendantslaid down the law to Cordova. WhenFerdinand II., King of Castile andLeon, took possession of Cordova andJaen, in 1236, Seville threw o
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