Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 168: July-December, 1900 Most of us will be able to call to mind having listened to all this more than once before, and the probabilities are that we Shall listen to it many times again before the actual end of the Moorish Empire arrives, or even approaches. Still recent events are worthy of some men tion, if only to point out how grossly exaggerated have been the cries of Wolf! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.