aracteristics, 48

Race, 24

Railways, 157 _et seq._

Regent, 9, 98, 145

Religion, 37, 109, 198 _et seq._

Republic, 139, 141

Restoration, 144

Revolution, 10, 262

Rice, 161

Riding, 89

Roads, 180

Roman Spain, 11, 12

Romero Robledo, 136, 137

Sagasta, 151

_Sala_, 33

Salic Law, 8, 9

Schools, 159, 160

_Seises, los_, 208, 209

Sericulture, 164

Serrano, 105

Sheep, merino, 32, 166

Shipping, 178

Silk manufactures, 16, 164

Silvela, 151

Smoking, 36, 60

Society, 55 _et seq._

Songs, 33, 81, 82, 114, 238

Songs and dancing, 114

Spanish-American War, I, 192 _et seq._

Sugar industry, 168

Superstitions popular, 102, 205, 233

Teatro Real, 62

Telegraphic system, 181

Terror of 1824, 22

_Tertulia_, 56 _et seq._

Theatres, 62, 116

Tobacco, 177

Toledo, 15

Toothpicks, 63

_Toreros_, 121

_Tribunal de las Aguas_, 34

Universities, 159

_Usted, de_, 98

Valencia, 34

Valera, Juan, 61

_Velo_, 79

Verse-making, 257

Virgin, 37, 203

War of Independence, 45 _et seq._

War, Spanish-American, 1, 192 _et seq._

Wars, Carlist, 9

Water, want of, 169

Wellington, Duke of, 26

Weyler, General, 186

Wines, 162 _et seq._

Women, 53, 62, 229 _et seq._, 249

Wood-carving, 176

Woollen manufactures, 164

Working men, 21, 83, 241, 261

_Zarzuela_, 116

Zorilla, 122, 252

_Zortico zorisco_, 115

PORTUGUESE LIFE

Agriculture, 301, 302

Aloes, 301

_Amanha_, 280

Amusements, 296, 302

Army, 298

Artisan class, 292

_Bacalhao_, 294

Bargaining, love of, 287

Brazilian elements, 287-291

Bull-fighting, 307 _et seq._

Camoens, 281

Characteristics, 278 _et seq._, 284, 285

Charities, 296

_Chula_, 296

Cleanliness, 289

Coimbra, 283

Costumes, 285, 300

Customs, 285

Dances, 296

Decorations and forms of address, 289

Fish, 294

Fish-girls, 293

Funerals, 306

Gallegos, 292

Gallenga, 293

Government, local, 310

Insects, 290

Institutions, 298

Intellectual life, 281

Land and people, 277

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