Word: spain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Museum. The club played four of its new Spanish airs in an extremely delicate manner, and were obliged to respond to an enthusiastic encore. Mr. Howells and Mr. Payson also played the Neapolitan polka "Fiorentinella" as a duet. After the music Mr. Walker gave a short lecture on Spain and art in general, and the evening was spent socially. The club will probably play at the meeting of March 18. Their next concert will be at Madam Thomas' on Wednesday evening, February...
Pointed Architecture in Germany, Italy and Spain...
...rabbits, Western New York is given up to deer and on the St. Lawrence River, or "Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls it, a couple of pelicans stand gazing at each other in mute admiration. The author describes North America as being divided into "New France, New Spain, Virginia, Florida, New Granada and California, which are inhabited by copper-colored barbarians of horrid mien. The work cost 300 marks in Dresden, Germany...
...possesses the charm of the other writings of that able historian. Perhaps the most interesting article in this number is that by Ellen Terry Johnson, called "The Queen Behind the Throne." It is a short sketch of a wonderful woman, the Princess des Ursins, the Madame de Maintenon of Spain. The writer enters into details which general histories have not space for, and the result is an admirable work. Among other articles presented are "A Southern Planter" and "American Fiction...
...relations which existed between Washington and the artists Robertson and Peele are recounted and a just appreciation manifested for the services which those artists rendered in preserving for posterity the features of our first President. "The Acquisition of Florida," a contribution from Hon, J. L. M. Curry, Minister to Spain, is a historical sketch of the troubles between the United States and Spain during the first years of the republic, and of the European complications which finally ended in the cession of Florida by Spain to the United States. This article is followed by a graphic description of the early...