This collection gives an excellent Stories of Spanish Life. Included are First Love by Emilia Pardo-Bazan, An Andalusian Duel by Serafin Estebanez Calderon, Mariquita the Bald by Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, The Love of Clotilde by Armando Palacio Valdes, Captain Veneno's Proposal of Marriage by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon."