King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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MILITARY ORDERS
adventurer. It is a glory about the ending
of the Orders, and a faint glow yet lingers
in the shabby little pages of Otanes’ Manual
of the Ceremonies at Receiving the Habit
of Calalrava, printed in 1785, at Pueblo de
los Angeles, in New Spain.
Envoy
r
Children of the northern seas, reared
under northern stars, we too have kindled
to our conquests and suffered our disillu-
sionment. The northern race has been
tried out and found wanting and for hope
we turn to the Mediterranean, as our
fathers turned, belike six millenniums ago.
HISPANIC NOTES