WIDE WORLD, THE. +In Other Magazines+ 100, 204, 307, 411, 515, 618 Illustrations from Photographs. WILD ANIMAL CATCHING, THE ROMANCE OF _Harold J. Shepstone._ 555 Illustrations from Photographs. WILDERNESS, GUARDIANS OF THE _Henry Hale._ 23 Illustrations from Photographs. WOMEN WEAR TROUSERS, WHERE _L. Van der Veer._ 443 Illustrations from Photographs. GEORGE NEWNES, LTD., SOUTHAMPTON STREET AND EXETER STREET, STRAND. W.C. [Illustration: "HE HELD UP THE DILIGENCE ON ITS WAY TO THE VILLAGE OF VILLAMARTIN." SEE PAGE 4.] +The Wide World Magazine+ Vol. XXII. OCTOBER, 1908. No. 127. El Vivillo, the Brigand. +By Jose Mondego, of Madrid.+ After close on twenty years of warfare with the police, alternated by brief spells of imprisonment and daring escapes, the notorious Spanish brigand known as "El Vivillo" has recently been laid by the heels for what is hoped to be the last time. Below will be found an account of the outlaw's exciting career, written by a Spanish journalist thoroughly familiar with the facts. Few of the "blood and thunder" novels that have fired the imaginations of lovers of the sensational have dealt with so interesting and, at the same time, so fascinating a scoundrel as El Vivillo, an Andalusian bandit, who was recently arrested in Buenos Ayres, Argentine. At the moment of writing he lies imprisoned, under a very heavy guard, in the penal prison at Cadiz, but no one who knows anything about his career and his extraordinary capacity for wriggling out of difficulties expects that he will remain within the four walls of his jail very long. It is freely hinted in high circles in Madrid that the hearts of many fair and influential ladies of Sunny Spain have been lost to the daring desperado, and that their owners will move heaven and earth to secure his release. Despite his life of crime and undoubted viciousness, El Vivillo has been the favourite hero of the youth of his country for more than eighteen years. This is not his first term behind prison bars; but all attempts to keep him there long have hitherto proved unsuccessful. Either by the expenditure of money in large sums, the influence of those in high places, or his own genius as a jail-breaker, he has walked out apparently when he pleased. [Illustration: EL VIVILLO, THE NOTORIOUS SPANISH BRIGAND. _From a Photograph._]