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CONTENTS
In Praise of Aix-les-Bains — Its Cures and Its Amusements — Rousseau's House — La Grande Chartreuse and Its Famous Liqueur — An Exercise in Russian Linguistics — The Marriage of the DuC d'Aosta — A Mediaeval Fête — The Queen of Italy and Her Royal Graces — The House of Savoy and Its Early Home at Aix — English Visitors — Princess Beatrice's Birthday 291
 
Letters from Spain — Barcelona and Tarragona — Roman, Carthaginian, and Moorish Antiquities — The Land of Don Quixote — Cordova and Its Mosque — Granada and the Alhambra — Fair Seville — The Donkey in Spain 319
 
Letters from Spain to Friends at Home — Further Thoughts of Madrid — At the Bull-flght — Toledo, the Majestic Crown of Spain — The Cathedral and Its Memories — Moorish Houses and Toledo Blades — The Escorial — The Library — The Pantheon — Burgos and Farewell to Spain 338
 
An Imaginary Conversation with an Editor — The Effect of Fashion on our Social Life — Our American Society and Its Leaders — Snobs and Snobbery — Society and Its Mission in Our National Life — King Fashion and His Power — A Last Word 363