The Story of Don John of Austria

o Jeromín, as this Story of Don John of Austria is called in Spanish, which says that it awakes great interest in the reader b

r of history. All the same, I think that much in this book will be fresh to English readers, notably, perhaps, the fact that an "auto da fe" consisted in hearing th

. I am indebted to Colonel Coloma for the picture of Antonio Pérez and the one of Luis Quijada, photographed specially for this book. Se?or de Osma was good enough to send me the autograph of Don John's mot

of how Jeromín pictured his father to himself, or how Philip II, "Reyna Ysove

expressed in this book, but if I have failed to reproduce a vivid pi

ones of his time who were his friends or foes, and on the multitude of their servants and followers, lingering most lovingly on beautiful Do?a Magdalena de Ulloa, as it glints on the golden texture of her unselfish life.

lemish tapestry; although the figures are seen they are full of threads which blur them, and the smoothness and bloom of the surface are not seen; not for this" he, however, adds encouragingly, "do I wish to say t

olonel Coloma for the trouble he has taken for its welfare, to Se?or de Osma for all his kindness,

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