Castilian Days by John Hay Madrid is a capital with malice aforethought. Usually the seat of government is established in some important town from the force of circumstances. Some cities have an attraction too powerful for the court to resist. There is no capital of England possible but London. Paris is the heart of France. Rome is the predestined capital of Italy in spite of the wandering flirtations its varying governments in different centuries have carried on with Ravenna, or Naples, or Florence. You can imagine no ...
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Castilian Days by John Hay Madrid is a capital with malice aforethought. Usually the seat of government is established in some important town from the force of circumstances. Some cities have an attraction too powerful for the court to resist. There is no capital of England possible but London. Paris is the heart of France. Rome is the predestined capital of Italy in spite of the wandering flirtations its varying governments in different centuries have carried on with Ravenna, or Naples, or Florence. You can imagine no Residenz for Austria but the Kaiserstadt, -the gemuthlich Wien. But there are other capitals where men have arranged things and consequently bungled them. The great Czar Peter slapped his imperial court down on the marshy shore of the Neva, where he could look westward into civilization and watch with the jealous eye of an intelligent barbarian the doings of his betters. Washington is another specimen of the cold-blooded handiwork of the capital builders. We shall think nothing less of the clarum et venerabile nomen of its founder if we admit he was human, and his wishing the seat of government nearer to Mount Vernon than Mount Washington sufficiently proves this. But Madrid more plainly than any other capital shows the traces of having been set down and properly brought up by the strong hand of a paternal government; and like children with whom the same regimen has been followed, it presents in its maturity a curious mixture of lawlessness and insipidity. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Pennell, Joseph. Very Good. No Jacket. Published in 1903 by William Heinemann. Very good book with no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature and notes to front flyleaf. Endpapers and book edges show light soiling. All pages clean, crisp and unmarked. Tender binding. A few pages of the index have been creased at corners. Clean boards with slightest bumping and rubbing; now nicely enclosed in an archival mylar jacket protector. Very nice copy. 275 pp. Ocatvo.
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Illustrated by Illustrations By Joseph Pennell. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Ownership name and date on front flyleaf.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Good. Green cloth boards, octavo, 414pp., not illustrated. Book has rubbing and wear to boards and spine, binding tight, foxing throughout but especially at front and back ends of block, toning. No DJ.
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Pennell, Joseph. Good. No dust jacket. 343: Illustrations, Plates. Holiday Edition, 343 pages, frontis, dark blue boards with ornate design and cover illustration. Top edge gilt; owner's name in front, Pages VERY GOOD, boards slight wear. Very nice copy.
