The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain: Described in a Series of Letters, With ...
The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain: Described in a Series of Letters, With ...
Nathaniel Armstrong Wells
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At Madrid, the cafes have each its political colour; except that called del Principe, after the adjoining theatre. In this, politics are less charac- terised, literature having here taken up her quarters. It is probable that she is a less profitable customer, being habitually less thirsty. Accordingly, on put- Digitized by Google 146 CAF^S. ting your head into the door, you see a saloon far more brilliantly lighted up than the others; but the peripatetic doctrines seem to prevail. Few per- sons... are seated at the tables; and instead of the more profitable wear and tear of broken glasses, the proprietor probably finds substituted a thankless annual item for worn out floors. In the same street there is a club ; but this is an exotic importation and on the exclusive^ plan, not quite of London, but of the Paris cercles. In the caf6s of Toledo, on the days of ^/fe^to, the fair sex predominates, especially in summer. The great resort is, however, the Zocodover, from nine to ten in the evening.
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