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It will be strange indeed if these fascinating and romantic tales fail
to stir the imagination of any young person who reads them and to
arouse in him the laudable ambition of some day seeing for himself the
three palaces, the mosque, the chapel, and the halls, of the
marvellous Alhambra.
The work was the amusement of his leisure moments, filling the
interval between the completion of one serious, and now all but
unknown, history and the beginning of the next.... And thus his
name has become so closely associated with the place that, just
as Diedrich Knickerbocker will be remembered while New York
stands, so Washington Irving cannot be forgotten so long as the
Red Palace looks down upon the Vega and the tradition of the Moor
lingers in Granada.
E.R. PENNELL.
IRVING, WASHINGTON. (p. 227)
Bracebridge Hall.
Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
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"The reader, if he has perused the volume of the Sketch Book,
will probably recollect something of the Bracebridge family, with
which I once passed a Christmas. I am now on another visit at the
Hall, having been invited to a wedding which is shortly to take
place.
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