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 the sceptre she bore SO bravely in the anxious years of her son's long minority. Peace and a measure of prosperity have continued to smile tupou Spain, and in the international councils Of Europe the ancient monarchy bears an increasingly important part, in cordial friendship with the two great democratic forces, England and France. Those Who on the memorable day in May, 1901, saw the King, so bright and eager, so manly yet so patheti cally young, face his parliament and his people for the first time as their ruler, and with head erect and.

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