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Excerpt from Historia de la España Contemporánea, 1788-1898En una obra que tantos detalles contiene, no puedo confiar en haber evitado errores, pero puedo afirmar con entereza que hice lo más que pude por evitarlos, y he tenido gran cuidado de confirmar mi recuerdo de los acontecimientos de que he sido testigo y de las descripciones que me hicieron los actores de las pri meras escenas, comprobándolo con otros relatos con temporáneos.About the ...

Excerpt from Philip II of Spain For three hundred years a bitter controversy has raged around the actions of Philip II. Of Spain. Until our own times no attempt even had been made to write his life-history from an impartial point Of view. He had been alternately deified and execrated, until through the mists of time and prejudice he loomed rather as the permanent embodiment Of a system than as an individual man swayed by changing circumstance...

Excerpt from The Year After the Armada: And Other Historical Studies If the reader is only half as much interested in perusing as I have been in writing them, I shall consider myself very fortunate. 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 ...

Excerpt from The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth: A History of the Various Negotiations for Her Marriage That a strong modern England was rendered possible mainly by the boldness, astuteness, and activity of Elizabeth at the critical turning-point of European history is generally admitted, but how masterly her policy was, and how entirely personal to herself, is even yet perhaps not fully understood. I have therefore endeavoured in this book to...

Excerpt from Treason and Plot: Struggles for Catholic Supremacy in the Last Years of Queen ElizabethThe adoption of the Reformation by England was an event which did not alone concern the nation itself, but threw out of balance the whole edifice of European power, built upon traditional alliances and international policies that had survived for centuries. However much it may have suited the temporal ends of Spanish monarchs to incite their sub...

Excerpt from Queens of Old Spain IN a previous volume I have remarked upon the extremely small political significance of most of the Queen Consorts of England, although socially the country has become what it is mainly through feminine in¿uence. In Spain the exact reverse has happened, and in no Christian country has the power of woman been less formative of the life and character of the nation, whilst, largely owing to personal and circum st...

Excerpt from Spanish Influence on English Literature IT has always appeared to me as impossible adequately to study the history of a literature as an isolated entity, as it is to follow intelligently the political progress of a country without regard to the con current events and actions of other nations in relation to it. Literatures, whilst in their origin the outcome of distinct national and racial circumstances, never theless act and reac...

Excerpt from Through Portugal Portugal had been familiar to me from my earliest youth, for my road to and from Spain had often lain that way, and circumstances had made me conversant with the language and his tory of the country, and yet this book is not the outcome of any such previous knowledge, but mainly of one short voyage in search of change and health. It happened in this way. As oft befalls men who in this striving world have to wring...

Excerpt from The Court of Philip IV: Spain in Decadence Thus wrote William Camden with reference to his projected life of Lord Burghley, which was never written, and the words may be applied not inappropriately to the present book and its writer. Some years ago I passed many laborious months in archives and libraries at home and abroad, searching and transcribing contemporary papers for what I hoped to make a complete history of the long reig...

Excerpt from Modern Spain 1788-1898 IN the seven years that have passed since this book was written the happiest hopes expressed in its Closing lines have SO far been fulfilled. The child Alfonso XIII. Has grown to be a man: a young man full Of generous impulses, and deeply imbued by his wise mother in the duties and responsibilities of a constitutional monarch. TO him in the ¿ower of his promising youth Queen Christina has handed unimpaired ...

Excerpt from The Spanish People: Their Origin, Growth, and InfluenceAN attempt is made in this book to trace the evolution of a lhighly composite peopl'e from its various racial unilsl ahdit'owseek in, the peculiarities of its origin and the circum stances Oi its development the explanation of its character and institutions, and Of the principal vicissitudes that have befallen it as a nation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundred...

Excerpt from The Wives of Henry the Eighth: And the Parts They Played in HistoryEither by chance or by the peculiar working of our constitution, the Queen Consorts of England have as a rule been nationally important only in proportion to the in¿uence exerted by the political tendencies which prompted their respective mani ages England has had no Catharine or Marie de Medici, no Elizabeth Farnese, no Catharine of Russia, no Caroline of Naples, ...

Excerpt from Sir Walter Ralegh: The British Dominion of the West Through all the stirring career of Ralegh, splendid favourite, successful soldier, statesman, poet, historian, philosopher, chemist, admiral, explorer and privateer, there ran, like a golden thread, shining brightly amid the dross that surrounded it, the inextinguishable resolve that the arrogant claim of the Philips to the exclusive possession of the western world, by virtue of...

Excerpt from Spain: Its Greatness and Decay (1479-1788)The period dealt with in these pages covers the rise and decadence of Spain and the commencement of a fallacious resuscitation. The rise was unwarranted by the stage of development which the nation had reached, and the ruin was consequently complete. In the history of no other European country is the whole cycle of national potency and exhaustion presented in so small a space, or in so sim...

Excerpt from True Stories of the Past A preface to a dead friend's book is of the nature of an epitaph. You have to crowd into a short space all you have wished to say in life, and have not said, either from shyness, want of occasion, or because you have never really thought that death was to be reckoned with between you and your friend. Of course we know we all must die, but still I fancy if the men on whom the tower in Siloam fell had been...

Excerpt from The Great Lord Burghley: A Study in Elizabethan StatecraftI cannot hope to have succeeded entirely where others have failed, but I have not spared time or labour in the attempt, and I have endeavoured, at least, to prevent my View of the events themselves from being obstructed by the documents which relate to them, and, so far as is possible in a short readable book, to present a general View of the policy of the reign of Elizabet...

Excerpt from Two English Queens and Philip Fate had dealt hardly with the Emperor of late, and the impossible task he had assumed was break ing him down mentally and physically. Once again 'i he had found himself faced, not only by his Old? Enemy France, but by his own German Princes, and solely by flight and good luck had he escaped capture at the hands Of the Judas whom he had made powerful at the expense Of right and justice, Maurice Of Sa...

Excerpt from The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots: A Political History The only excuse that can be advanced for the pro duction of a new book on Mary Stuart is that her supremely interesting personality has so frequently led her historians into the by-path of inquiry as to her virtue or vice, as to have obscured, to some extent, the reasons for her disastrous political failure which, as it seems to me, did not spring from her goodness or b...