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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Sacristy are thefamous tables given byAlfonso the Good to thishistoric church. They areof gilded silver without,and of gold within, andcovered with chisellingsencrusted with preciousstones. There, also, isthe great silver key, onthe wards of which is theinscription, God willopen and the King willenter. Underneath thering of this key are gravenships, lions, and castles.The custodians say thatthis was the key given bythe Moors to King Fer-dinand when they gaveup the city of Seville.There, too, is a majesticchandelier of bronze,which serves for the officeof the Holy Week whenthe streets of Seville aretransformed into a vastreligious fair, and when the hotels arethronged with visitors from the four quar-ters of the world. This chandelier is filledwith columns, caryatids, statues, and otherornaments in relief. In this Sacristy is theTabernacle, v-orth fifteen thousand or sixteen thousand dollars of our money.This is carried in the procession on theday of the festival of the Holy Sacrament.
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BEGGARS AT THE CATHEDRAL DOOR. It is of incomparable richness, and iscovered with most curious figures ofangels and of saints. From the top of the Giralda Towerwe looked down upon the great squarein which the Inquisition used to roast its 130 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. unhappy victims, and tried to imaginethe scene : but it seemed to us incrediblethat so sunny, so peaceful, and so beau-tiful a place should have l)een chosenfor the exercise of the rage of the mostbigoted monks the world has ever known.We preferred to dismiss from ourthoughts the remembrance of these hor-rors, recollecting that the Inquisition haslong ago had its teeth drawn, and to callup, as we looked over beautiful Seville,the poetic figures of the great paintersand sculptors who have made the townillusti-ious. The school of Seville countsamong its glories, Zurbaran, Fernandez,Velasquez, and Herrera. Murillo was,in point of fact, not a native of Seville,although the Sevillans claimed him asone of their own. But he has

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