Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Irving, Washington, 1783-1859

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Geoffrey Crayon. * * * * * To The Editor Of The Knickerbocker.

* * * * * A Chronicle Of Wolfert's Roost. Found Among The Papers Of The Late Diedrich Knickerbocker.

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Geoffrey Crayon. * * * * * Sleepy Hollow. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

* * * * * The Birds Of Spring. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Geoffrey Crayon. * * * * * Recollections Of The Alhambra. By The Author Of The Sketch-book.

* * * * * Geoffrey Crayon. The Abencerrage. A Spanish Tale.

* * * * * The Enchanted Island. By The Author Of The Sketch-book.

* * * * * The Adelantado Of The Seven Cities. A Legend Of St. Brandan.

* * * * * National Nomenclature. To The Editor Of The Knickerbocker.

* * * * * Desultory Thoughts On Criticism.

G.c. * * * * * Spanish Romance. To The Editor Of The Knickerbocker.

* * * * * Legend Of Don Munio Sancho De Hinojosa. By The Author Of The Sketch-book. * * * * *

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Communipaw. To The Editor Of The Knickerbocker.

Hermanus Vanderdonk. * * * * * Conspiracy Of The Cocked Hats. To The Editor Of The Knickerbocker.

Roloff Van Ripper. * * * * *

* * * * * The Bermudas. A Shaksperian Research: By The Author Of The Sketchbook.

* * * * * The Three Kings Of Bermuda. And Their Treasure Of Ambergris.

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* * * * * Pelayo And The Merchant's Daughter. By The Author Of The Sketch-book.

* * * * * The Knight Of Malta. To The Editor Of The Knickerbocker

Geoffrey Crayon. * * * * * The Grand Prior Of Minorca, A Veritable Ghost Story.

* * * * * * * * * * By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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* * * * * The Count Van Horn.

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life and luxuriating on the vices and follies of mankind, and when the universal pursuit of gain is trampling down the early growth of poetic feeling and wearing out the verdure of the soul, I question whether it would not be of service for the reader occasionally to turn to these records of prouder times and loftier modes of thinking, and to steep himself to the very lips in old Spanish romance.

For my own part, I have a shelf or two of venerable, parchment-bound tomes, picked up here and there about the peninsula, and filled with chronicles, plays, and ballads, about Moors and Christians, which I keep by me as mental tonics, in the same way that a provident housewife has her cupboard of cordials. Whenever I find my mind brought below par by the commonplace of every-day life, or jarred by the sordid collisions of the world, or put out of tune by the shrewd selfishness of modern utilitarianism, I resort to these venerable tomes, as did the worthy hero of La Mancha to his books of chivalry, and refresh and tone up my spirit by a deep draught of their contents. They have some such effect upon me as Falstaff ascribes to a good Sherris sack, "warming the blood and filling the brain with fiery and delectable shapes."

I here subjoin, Mr. Editor, a small specimen of the cordials I have mentioned, just drawn from my Spanish cupboard, which I recommend to your palate. If you find it to your taste, you may pass it on to your readers.

Your correspondent and well-wisher,
GEOFFREY CRAYON.

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LEGEND OF DON MUNIO SANCHO DE HINOJOSA.

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SKETCH-BOOK.

In the cloisters of the ancient Benedictine convent of San Domingo, at Silos, in Castile, are the mouldering yet magnificent monuments of the once powerful and chivalrous family of Hinojosa. Among these, reclines the marble figure of a knight, in complete armor, with the hands pressed together, as if in prayer. On one side of his tomb is sculptured in relief a band of Christian cavaliers, capturing a cavalcade of male and female Moors; on the other side, the same cavaliers are represented kneeling before an altar. The tomb, like most of the neighboring monuments, is almost in ruins, and the sculpture is nearly unintelligible, excepting to the keen eye of the antiquary. The story connected with the sepulchre, however, is still preserved in the old Spanish chronicles, and is to the following purport.