Parque de Madrid, 71

    Pasos, 210

    Passion plays, 209, 212

    Pavia, 140

    Pavo, pelando el, 230

    Peasants, 24 et seq.

    Pelayo, 61

    Pelota, 31, 111

    People, 38 et seq.

    Philip II., 16, 202, 271

    Pigs, 166, 167

    Poetry, 114, 268

    Politeness, national, 39, 40, 51, 52

    Political parties, 7, 134 et seq.

    Politicians, 50, 135

    Pollos and pollas, 88, 89

    Ports and harbours, 178

    Pottery, 175, 176

    Poverty, 226

    Press, 129 et seq.

    Priesthood, 199, 218

    Prim, 142-144

    Procrastination, 52

    Productive land, 172

    Pronunciamientos, 144, 145, 147, 186

    Protestants, 216

    Pyrenees, 25, 30

    Queen Cristina, 97, 98, 103

    Queen Mercedes, 97, 106

    Quemadero, 20, 201

    Quijote, Don, 48

    Quixotic characteristics, 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.