Romantic legends of Spain. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

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       Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

      Romantic legends of Spain

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664634580

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       PREFACE

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER

       FOREWORD

       ROMANTIC LEGENDS OF SPAIN

       MASTER PÉREZ THE ORGANIST

       THE EMERALD EYES

       THE GOLDEN BRACELET

       THE RAY OF MOONSHINE

       THE DEVIL’S CROSS

       THREE DATES

       THE CHRIST OF THE SKULL

       THE WHITE DOE

       THE PASSION ROSE

       BELIEVE IN GOD A Provençal Ballad.

       THE PROMISE

       THE KISS

       THE SPIRITS’ MOUNTAIN

       THE CAVE OF THE MOOR’S DAUGHTER

       THE GNOME

       THE MISERERE

       STRANGE

       WITHERED LEAVES

       THE SET OF EMERALDS

       THE TAVERN OF THE CATS

       ALL SOULS’ NIGHT

      THE CATHEDRAL, TOLEDO

      ROMANTIC LEGENDS

       OF SPAIN

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      By GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER TRANSLATED BY CORNELIA FRANCES BATES AND KATHARINE LEE BATES NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1909 By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY DEDICATED TO A SHINING MEMORY

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      A WORD regarding the circumstances under which this translation was made will be pardoned by all children of dear mothers.

      Mrs. Cornelia Frances Bates (1826-1908), a graduate of Mount Holyoke in the days of Mary Lyon and the widow of a Congregational minister, took up the study of Spanish at the age of seventy-one. Until her death ten years later, the proverbial ten years of “labor and sorrow,” her Spanish readings and translations were a keen intellectual delight. Her Spanish Bible, from which she had committed many passages to memory, was found at her death no less worn than her English one. Even a few hours before dying, she repeated in Spanish, without the failure of a syllable, the Shepherd’s Psalm and the Lord’s Prayer.

      So youthful was her spirit that, of the various modern Spanish works with which she became acquainted, nothing fascinated her so much as Becquer’s strange, romantic tales. The wilder they were, the brighter would be the eager face, under its soft white cap, bent over the familiar little green volumes and the great red dictionary. Seeing the pleasure she took in these legends and learning that no complete English translation existed, I suggested that we unite in a “Becquer Book.” Her full share of the work was promptly done; mine was delayed; and the volume—which we had meant to inscribe to my sister—becomes her own memorial.

      Gratitude for helpful suggestions is due to the late Mr. Frederick Gulick of Auburndale, Mass., formerly of San Sebastian, and to Señorita Carolina Marcial, formerly of Seville and now of Wellesley College. Especial and most cordial acknowledgment is made of the critical reading given the entire manuscript by Miss Alice H. Bushée of the Colegio Internacional, Madrid.

      K. L. B.

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The Cathedral, Toledo	Frontispiece
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The Cathedral, Seville	8
A City Square, Toledo	32
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