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Title: Things seen in Spain. With fifty illus
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine), 1867-1928
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Publisher: London : Seely, Service
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of greattrees. You will remember those enchantedforests you dreamed of as a child. In truth,the architecture of the mosque is like a livingthing. The light, entering from above, playsupon the arches, causing the red stones togleam like fire; it frets the thousand columnswith moving patterns; it catches the glassmosaics in jewelled brilliance, and makes asoft shining upon the marble pavement, inwhich, as you look up and down, you see theJong arcades reflected until the distance diesaway, mysterious and apparently unending. But words cannot describe this wonderfultemple. The Moorish houses of prayer willbring you a sense of joy : there is nothing ofthe mystic suggestion of a Gothic cathedral—that of Seville, for instance; your spirit isfreed, not awed. The mosque was to theMoor this world as well as the next. Hereis the message of a race who understood thefulness of hving so well that they knew howto be joyously at home with their God ; andyou realize more fully this lesson that theno
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Sicieo CoJyyigiit, Lnderivood &• U. London &• Aeio York. THE QUEEN S CHAMBER^ ALHAMBRA^ GRANADA. The windows look out on to one of the exquisite Moorish gardens for whichCiranada is famous. Town Life in Spain Moors gave to Spam, which finds its ex-pression to-day in the Spaniards happyfamiliarity with his God. The stranger will now be ready to under-stand the special atmosphere of Seville, for itis this frank acceptance of joy as the goldthread of life which gives the southern cityits charm. It is not shadowed with memorylike sleeping Cordova, nor is it overburdenedwith heroic monuments like Toledo; thereare no ruins such as give sadness to Granada;it is still a living city whose blood is pulsingwith the joy of life lived in the sunshine. The buildings for which the city is famousall have this aspect of joy—the MoorishTower of Gold; the Alcazar, with its flower-crowded gardens; the Giralda Tower, whichis so old, and yet in its glittering whitenesslooks so new. There is a

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