A lofty Gothic portal separates the Capilla Real from the cathedral by a _reja_, or iron gates, elaborately worked. No gilded canopy obscures the figures from the light, so royal is their simplicity, and when the radiance of the eastern sun lights up the vaulted ceiling, knitted into broad bands into bosses, leaves, and borders, and pictures, golden _retablos_ and sculptured saints stand out on the subdued splendour of the walls, the effect is as a scene of actual history, enacted in what was once the great mosque of the Moors, conquered by the arms of these dead sovereigns (_Los Reyes Catolicos_) and converted into this Christian sepulchre, as a triumph to last as long as the world stands. THE END * * * * * _A Selection from the Catalogue of_ G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS Complete Catalogue sent on application Old Court Life in France By Frances Elliot Author of “Old Court Life in Spain,” etc. _Two Volumes, Octavo. With 60 Photogravure and Other Illustrations, Net $5.00. Carriage 50 cents_ “Probably the most readable and successful work of the kind ever attempted. It has been through many editions, and its popularity remains unimpaired. The work is charming in manner and carries with it the impress of accuracy and careful investigation. “Mrs. Elliot’s is an anecdotal history of the French Court from Francis I to Louis XIV. She has conveyed a vivid idea of the personalities touched upon, and her book contains a great deal of genuine vitality.”--_Detroit Free Press_ G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York London _By Elise W. Rose and Vida Hunt Francis_ Cathedrals and Cloisters of the Isle-de-France (Including Bourges, Troyes, Auxerre, Reims and Rouen) In Two Volumes Cathedrals and Cloisters of Midland France Burgundy, Savoy, Dauphiné, Auvergne, Aquitaine In Two Volumes Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France Provence, Languedoc, Gascony In Two Volumes _Each Set of Two Volumes Contains over 200 Illustrations (some in Photogravure) from Original Photographs, Per set (of 2 Vols.), $5.00 net_ These volumes are the fruit of many successive summers spent in wanderings in “rare unspoiled France,” where the tourist and his suit-case are practically unknown.