Bull-fight. Lagartijo irritating the bull with a cloak before killing him 440 Bull-fight. The bull being dragged out of the Arena 441 Ladies at the bull-fight 442 The Procession 443 Entrance of the bull 443 The Picador 444 At close quarters 444 A turn with his back to the bull 445 Fixing the Banderillas 445 The Matador 446 The final stroke 446 Bull-fight. Leap over the bull’s neck 447 Bull-fight. Leap with the pole 448 Bull-fight. Banderillas 449 Toreador wounded during a bull-fight, by Lizcano 450 Guerrita. Banderillero 451 Antonio Fuentes 451 Luis Mazzantini and Cuadrilla 452 Bull-fight. Last moments of a Toreador after being attacked in the Arena, by R. Novas 453 MADRID I GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF MADRID “From Madrid to heaven, and in heaven a spy-hole to look at Madrid” is the vaunt of the inhabitants of the Spanish capital. This pride has its justification, for Madrid is a fine city, remarkable for its position on a plateau over two thousand feet above the sea, famous for its progress during the eventful eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and interesting by reason of the great names in the arts and literature inscribed upon its records. Madrid for the writers of the Romantic school was as charming as all other things Spanish; for de Musset it was “princesse des Espagnes” and “blanche ville des sérénades.”