It is à la mode to write prefaces. Some of us write good ones, others bad, and most of us write neither good nor bad ones. The chapter entitled "General Remarks" is the real introduction to the book, so in these lines I shall pen a few words of self-introduction to such readers as belong to the class to whom I have dedicated this volume. My love for Spain is unbounded. As great as is my love for the people, so great also is my depreciation for those who have wronged her, being her sons. Who are they? They know that best themselves. Spain's architecture is.
