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OF
THE
CHRISTIANS
AND
MOORS
OF
OF
SPAIN.
CHARL(KTE
AUTHOR
'P
HEIR
OF
JDcfFE,
'
JETC
LONDON
MACMILLAN
AND
CO,
1878.
CHARLES
DICKENS
AND
EVANS,
CRYSTAL
PALACE
PRESS.
PREFACE.
IN
the
awakening
of
romance
earlier
tunes
of
the
m
modern
days,
Spanish
chivalry
was
the
fashion,
it
Scott
;
and
Southey
both
did
and
the
fantastic
their
parts
in
making
known
honour
and
dauntless
bravery
of
;
the
Castihan
knight
were
favourite
subjects
so
that
Washington
Irving
in
America,
and
Herder
m
Ger-
many,
were
alike
inspired
with
the
same
entfiusiasm.
jVtodern
criticism
siflage
on
the
one
hand,
and
modern
pei-
on
the
other,
have
done
their
part
to
discredit
these
legends.
tion
Research
has
shown
the
small
founda-
on
which
stood
some
of
the
favourite
stones,
at.
and
then
they
have
been
parodied
and
laughed
Perhaps
Babieca
is
more
familiar
as
the
horse
of
;
Dqn
Fernando
Gomezales
than
of
the
Cid
and
even
$on
been
Quixote
has
been
so
far
forgotten
that
there
has
little
inclination
to
seek
out
either
the
facts
or
the
fictions
that
formed
his
character.
A
vi
PREFACE
Thus
it
has
seemed
to
me
that
the
eight
hundred
years'
struggle
between
the
Moslem
and
the
Christian
was
little
recollected
at
the
present
its
day
;
nor,
indeed,
could
I
find
history,
romance,
and
poetry
anywhere
Viardot
has
admirably
brought
into
combination.
written
the
Moorish
history,
and
Dozy
has
brought
it
,
microscopic
reseaich
to
bear
upon
history
alone,
is
but
they
take
and
from
the
Moorish
side.
Dui
den's
a
very
good
English
complete
histoiy
of
Spam,
full
of
matter,
but
many-volumed
and
almost
foi
gotten
;
and
Lady
Callcotf
s
stands
nearly
alone
as
a
short
popular
history
of
great
excellence.
Washington
Irving
has
dealt
with
the
romance
of
the
Arab
conquest,
Southey
with
the
Cid,
Lockhart
with
the
ballad
lore,
;
Peiez
de
Hyta
with
the
civil
wars
ofGranada
but,
as
fai
as
I
have
seen,
no
one
has
tried
to
combine
in
a
general
view
Spanish
and
Moorish
history,
together
with
song.
It
is
tradition,
romance,
and
a
presumptuous
effort,
only
properly
to
be
by
one
with
as
much
access
to
original
documents
and
private
knowledge
as
Mr.
Ford,
to
whose
handbook
I
am
much
indebted
;
but
he
is
carried
out
out
of
sympathy
with
the
spirit
of
the
Spaniards,
and
more
their
inclined
to
dwell
on
their
evil
is
qualities
than
good
ones
This,
then,
only
a
compilation
to
give
a
surface
idea of
that
strange
waifare,
and
which
PREFACE.
may,
perhaps, give
a
hint of
unexplored
wondrous
interest.
fields
vii
of
Where
it
has
been
possible,
I
have
availed
myself
of
existing
translations
of
Spanish
poetry.
Having
no
knowledge
of
Arabic,
I
am
afraid
the
names
of
the
Moorish
princes
may
not
be
always
correctly
spelt,
as
authors
vary
a
good
deal
in
their
mode
of
expressing
them.
C.
M.
YONGE.
May
3LF/,
1878.

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