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by: J.B. Trend
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781406737110
ISBN: 1406737119
Label: Laing Press
Manufacturer: Laing Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
Publisher: Laing Press
Studio: Laing Press
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M E A NEW SPAIN WITH OLD E by J. B. TREND NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1940 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN For CARLETON, ELIZABETH AND DAMARIS in New York CONTENTS Chapterl. Introduction page 1 ydfl. Travelling to Mexico 6 I HI. Arrival 12 IV. Trees, Bookshops and Colonial Architecture 23 V-Pyramids 35 VI. Toltec Legends 44 I. Christmas in Mexico 53 . Excursion with Emma 60 EX. Second Arrival 72 X. Reflections in Merida 79 XI. Maya 89 XII. Ophelia, Donna Anna, Elvira and the Pedregal 102 Xin. Lecture Tour without Lectures 116 XIV. Alphabets for Indians 128 XV. Mexican Spanish 142 XVI. The New Pilgrim Fathers 161 XVIL Mixed Memories 171 Index 181 ILLUSTRATIONS I. Mexico, from Chapultepec facing page 16 Mexico Monument to Obregon H. Chichen Itza Yucatan Toltec Ball-court 44 Mexico Aztec Calendar Stone EOL Puebla Tiled House 64 Puebla Casa de Alfenique IV. Tarascan Indian dug-out Lake of Pdtzcuaro 70 Taxco On the roof of the Cathedral V. Merida Iron rejas supported on ledges 80 Merida Curved reja supported on step VI. Chicken Itza Temple of the Bas-reliefs 94 Chichen Itzd Player in the Ball-game VH. Chichen Itza Temple of the Two Lintels 96 Uxmal Yucatan Gateway Vffl. Chichen Itza Human face in jaws of Plumed Serpent . 100 Chich6n Itzd Mask of Itzamna The Hook-nosed God Temple of the Two Lintels MAP OF MEXICO at end Chapter I INTRODUCTION JVLodern Mexico has been described in all its aspects. The work has been done partly in Mexico, partly in England, but mainly in the United States and the best informed American writers have shown that rare sympathy with Mexican things which only comes with real understanding of Mexican aspirations. I cannot hope or attempt to do better what has already been done in America. I could not, if I tried while my ever increasing admiration for the United States, and the innu merable friendly people who live there, would prevent me from intruding on what, after all, is more their concern than mine. Mexico may have been the New Spain, la Nueva Espafta but its people are not now Europeans but Americans whilst I feel myself to be incurably European, and my only qualifications for writing about the New Spain are that I have had more experience than most people of the old on, and can overhear most things that are said in most kiUds of Spanish. I have known Spain intimately for twenty years, and have been fortunate enough to make a large number of Spanish friends and when I think of Spain of the Spain I Joaew of what it has been and what it may be again, the words Spain and Spanish clearly mean a great deal more to me than they do to most modern writers on Mexico, who have never been in Spain in their lives. To me, of course, there is another Spain, just as in 1919 we became aware that there was another France which was not exactly that of M. Clemenceau and as I try to suggest 2 INTRODUCTION sometimes to those who raise their eyebrows at the rulers of modern England there is still another England a country which once produced statesmen and administrators, and still produces writers and men of science a country, above all, of poetsof Promethean poets, to borrow the phrase of a Spanish poet now resident in Mexico including not only Shakespeare and Keats, but Langland and Milton, Shelley, Byron and Swinburne men who not only wrote poetry, but who protested in poetry, as well. When I am alone in another country, avoiding English people and English news papers, enjoying the society of other friends and the intel lectual exercise of speaking, thinking and writing in another language, it is the poets whom I most like to think of as English the poets, and then the eccentric, quixotic English men, the mad Englishmen, the type which everyone in other countries has known or heard of, and which may be, after all, the only type of Englishman which anybody in another country can really admire. It was the other Spain which first took me to Mexico...
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