The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . PACED RACING: A. A. CHASE AND J. W. STOCKS RIDING AT CATFORD.(Plwto : E. Scamelt, Croutft Hill.). CORTESIAS: ENTRY INTO THE ARENA OF THE QUADRILHA, PEQUENO, LISBON. CIRCUS OF THE CAMPO A PORTUGUESE BULLFIGHT. By DR. H. ANACHORETA. THE origin of the bullfight, which is so severelycriticised almost everywhere outside of thePeninsula, is obscure ; but one fact re-mains, and that is its unimpaired popularity inthe lands with which it is associated. Moreover,implanted in the Spanish and Portuguese coloniesof other continent
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . PACED RACING: A. A. CHASE AND J. W. STOCKS RIDING AT CATFORD.(Plwto : E. Scamelt, Croutft Hill.). CORTESIAS: ENTRY INTO THE ARENA OF THE QUADRILHA, PEQUENO, LISBON. CIRCUS OF THE CAMPO A PORTUGUESE BULLFIGHT. By DR. H. ANACHORETA. THE origin of the bullfight, which is so severelycriticised almost everywhere outside of thePeninsula, is obscure ; but one fact re-mains, and that is its unimpaired popularity inthe lands with which it is associated. Moreover,implanted in the Spanish and Portuguese coloniesof other continents, the national pastime hasthere undergone modifications characteristic ofthe various tastes of those communities. In the provinces, where the usages and more primitive, perhaps, than in the morepolished i irrlcs of Lisbon and Madrid, the bull-fight still preserves much of its old simplicity ;but in the capitals it is conducted with mmthe pageantry of the age of chivalry, forming onimportant occasions a spectacle of tin- greatestsplendour. The bullfight of Portugal offers, however, widedifferences from the same sport as practised acrossthe frontier, for t
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