LIFE IN EUROPE: LITERARY ACTIVITY 94

CHAPTER VII.
IN SPAIN 141

CHAPTER VIII.
RETURN TO AMERICA: SUNNYSIDE: THE MISSION TO
MADRID 158

CHAPTER IX.
THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS 190

CHAPTER X.
LAST YEARS: THE CHARACTER OF HIS LITERATURE 282




WASHINGTON IRVING.

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY.


It is over twenty years since the death of Washington Irving removed
that personal presence which is always a powerful, and sometimes the
sole, stimulus to the sale of an author's books, and which strongly
affects the contemporary judgment of their merits. It is nearly a
century since his birth, which was almost coeval with that of the