New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-07

armed and helpless He was standing m9tonless
people-sitting in the shadow and the glare
A bull came out Of the upright space of blackness
and walked down the slope TO the edge of the
sand. . There was the white figure of the
the edge, the black bull, looking around. And
every one was silent I turned my head away FOR
an instant and when looked again the bull was
charging across the arena. He had seen the tan
swift black thing of destruction. it was rushing
upon this motionless man In white
swerved and stopped dead. The man in white stiil
stood motOness on the perisye The bull aEa9
around him. Then. with toss of its head. 1t left
chuo had just entered the arena and had attracted
it by the waving of his cape.
have been gored to death before the toreros could
get across the arena to the bull He had to stand 6
no bull. however furious, will strike or gore
thing that does not move
The author felt his heart warm to the Anda-
lusian rustics. He liked their simplicity. and
added to that what in his eyes seemed to be
charm and grace. The women he thought the
most beautiful he had ever seen. He tells US
that in Seville If n man were see a plain
or an ugly woman he would be apt to turn and
stare at her he would at some curiosity. In
the people of CASTLE he marked an undercurrent
of sullenness which meant the possibility of
tragic violence: the Galatians were without the
sullenness, and they looked and spoke with the
hardy energy and intelligence OF the North
AS for the condition of Spain. he stoutly as
serts that she is not the poverty stricken coun-
try she is supposed to be. He actually sets down
his belief that the man of Spain is better off
than the man of England or of America: HE
has better time-he has less work to do-he
IS better fed" We regret that can find in
this volume lao special proofs of the reasonable
ness of these assertions
Mr. Kennedy's peasantest chapter is that
devoted to his experiences in Andorra. that
strange little mountain republic. with its five
thousand inhabitants and its burning patriot
ism. Shut away from the rest of the world is
Andorra. by the difficulty of it's mountain paths
How difficult they are ilustra ted by the
story told by President Jose Calva to the trav-
eller. 1t dealt with Andorrano who in a
Spanish town across the frontier, had become
fascinated by piano. and after much chatter
ing bought it bargain.
How was he to get his property TO Andorra? It
heavy and awkward to put the back
Of mule. and the path was such that it was i'm
possible to draw II. He tackled the Spaniard as
was no Longer his. and the Andorrano could do
with 1t as he willed. Either he could take 1t away
the matter was that it turned out to be dear
piano for the Andorrano. for 1t took eight mon
about seventeen miles from SEQ de Urge The
story Instructive. And Calva laughed out loud
when / managed make the point clear to him
that bad though the road was It good road
for Andorra.
The most exciting episode of the tramp"
came at the end, when the author was lost in
the in crossing the mountain from An
DORA TO the French frontier He tells the
story OF that miserable night in very spirited
fashion.