WiltfllSilllllillltlili MOORISH FLOUR MILL ON THE GUADALQUIVIR AT CORDOVA The Oldest Operating Mill in the World, Built A.D. 700-712 Oil Sketch by George A. Zabriskie Washington Irving must have absorbed much of this feeling; he was a great lover of Spain and the romantic, else he never could have written his Conquest of Granada, 1829, his Spanish Voyages of Discovery, 1831, and later his Moorish Chronicles, Mohamet and His Successors, Legends of the Conquest of Spain, etc. Through all of these there is a certain cheerfulness; the most striking quality of all his works, in fact, is charm, whether he writes of ghosts and goblins or castles or prairies or men and women. Irving was in truth an ambassador of good will. While his literary skill brought him fame and distinction, these can never be separated from that unfailing courtesy and integrity of character that won for him the admiration and affection of all among whom he worked wherever he traveled. His modesty in success, 13