# Portugal of the Portuguese

Author: Bell, Aubrey F. G. (Aubrey Fitz Gerald), 1882-1950

Genre: Portugal

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74608

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Portugal+of+the+Portuguese+Bell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Too many judge the character of the Portuguese from a hasty study of what Beckford nearly a century ago impolitely called the Lisbon _canaille_. The life of the Portuguese in a political and literary (written literature) sense is concentrated in Lisbon, but outside this narrow circle exists the Portuguese people proper, to the foreigner almost an unknown quantity, taking no concern for the latest political party formed or the latest volume of second-rate verse published, yet constituting in its strength or weakness the political future of Portugal and containing within itself a whole literature of prose and poetry, legend and song. In some measure those who know the Irish peasant know the...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portugal-of-the-portuguese-74608/chapters/9/index.md)