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Excerpt from Spain in the Nineteenth Century The present volume will be the last of this Nineteenth-Century series of Historical Narratives. I again disclaim, as I have done in several previous prefatory Notes, any right to be classed as an "historian," and deprecate being judged by the high standards properly applied to those who look beneath the surface of events, and elucidate the causes of history. I would like to say, however, that I claim one merit for this book, - that there is no other, so far as I know, which supplies what it offers to my readers, namely, a general view of what has happened in Spain during the present century. There are many excellent books, both of history and travel, which tell us about Spain in the days of her glory, - about Ferdinand and Isabella, the expulsion of the Moors, the Peninsular War, the Alhambra, Bull-fights, and the Cathedrals; but there seems to be nowhere, a continuous history of the period about which I have been writing. I have had to dig out my facts one by one, from contemporary sources; or, to use a more feminine simile, I have drawn my threads out of tangled skein. I trust my readers will not find the story too involved to be interesting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.