THE history of the Gypsies, according to the editor of the present work, is best presented in a series of desultory anecdotes which relate chiefly to the Egyptian usages of murder, pocket-picking, and ...

When Alexandre Dumas toured Spain in 1846, he indulged in what had become a ritual for romantics. Entering the Andalusian city of Granada, the French writer and his coterie of arty companions found a ...