Romantic Cities of California By HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE Illustrated by E. H. SUYDAM D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INCORPORATED NEW YORK 1939 LONDON THE ART MUSEUM IN BALBOA PARK., SAN DIEGO To all our California friends, old and new, who have helped us to see the various beauty of their State, and have guided us in discovering something of her splendid story, thanks and appreciation from both illustrator and author. Foreword to Possible Readers O. .. that mine adversary had written a book cried Job, a good long while back in the past. He believed that would have given a marvelous opportunity to make matters uncomfortable for that adversary, and to any one writing the particular type of book contained within these covers, it appears likely that Job was right. In writing a book you lay yourself open to, attack, not so much personal, viii Foreword not even from adversaries, but merely from those who know better than you. What book was ever written that did not contain errors, in especial the...