_VIRGIN SPAIN_ [Illustration: colophon] _by WALDO FRANK_ _The Unwelcome Man_ _The Dark Mother_ _Rahab_ _City Block_ _Holiday_ _Chalk Face_ _The Art of The Vieux Colombier_ _Our America_ _Salvos_ _Virgin Spain_ and Introductions to _Adventures in The Arts, by Marsden Hartley_ _Cane, by Jean Toomer_ _The Plays of Molière_ (_Modern Library_) _Lucienne, by Jules Romains_. [Illustration: VIRGIN SPAIN SCENES FROM THE SPIRITUAL DRAMA OF A GREAT PEOPLE WALDO FRANK NEW YORK BONI & LIVERIGHT 1926 ] COPYRIGHT 1926 :: BY BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES [Illustration: colophon] First printing, March, 1926 Second printing, June, 1926 _To_ _those brother Americans_ _whose tongues are Spanish and Portuguese_ _whose homes are between the Rio Grande and Tierra del Fuego_ _but whose America like mine_ _stretches from the Arctic to the Horn._ OFTEN, MEDITATING ON THE FERVOR WITH WHICH SPAIN HAS EVER DEFENDED AND PROCLAIMED THE DOCTRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, I HAVE THOUGHT THAT IN THE DEPTHS OF THIS DOGMA THERE MUST BE A MYSTERY AKIN WITH THE MYSTERY OF OUR NATIONAL SOUL: THAT PERHAPS THIS DOGMA IS A SYMBOL ... OF OUR BEING. ... ANGEL GANIVET. _ACKNOWLEDGMENTS_ ¶ The wanderer upon the face of the earth will love these lands whose drama is the burden of my book, if for no other reason for the pure hospitality of their peoples. To move from the Sahara of the Arabs to Biscay of the Basques, is to move from hospitable home to hospitable home: is to be chained forever in the remembrances of kindness. Unto all my friends, whose names are not too numerous to mention but whose grace would feel itself abused by public thanks, my thanks, then.