Gay-looking, vivacious in its beauty, silent, ill-provided, depopulated, Cordova was once the pearl of the West, the city of cities, Cordova of the thirty suburbs and three thousand mosques; to-day she is no more than an overgrown village, but she still remains the most Oriental town in Spain. Cordova, once the centre of European civilisation, under the Moors the Athens of the West, the successful rival of Baghdad and Damascus, the seat of learning and the repository of the arts, has shrunk to the proportions of a third-rate provincial town; but the artist, the antiquary and the lover of the beautiful, will still find in its streets and squares and patios a mysterious spell that cannot be resisted. BY ALBERT F. CALVERT LIFE OF CERVANTES A NEW LIFE OF THE GREAT SPANISH AUTHOR TO COMMEMORATE THE TERCENTENARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF “DON QUIXOTE,” WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS AND REPRODUCTIONS FROM EARLY EDITIONS OF “DON QUIXOTE” Size Crown 8vo. 150 pp. Price 3/6 net PRESS NOTICES “A popular and accessible account of the career of Cervantes.”--_Daily Chronicle._ “A very readable and pleasant account of one of the great writers of all time.”--_Morning Leader._ “MR. CALVERT is entitled to the gratitude of book-lovers for his industrious devotion at one of our greatest literary shrines.”--_Birmingham Post._ “It is made trebly interesting by the very complete set of Cervantes’ portraits it contains, and by the inclusion of a valuable bibliography.”--_Black and White._ “We recommend the book to all those to whom Cervantes is more than a mere name.”--_Westminster Gazette._ “A most interesting résumé of all facts up to the present time known.”--_El Nervion de Bilbao, Spain._ “The most notable work dedicated to the immortal author of Don Quixote that has been published in England.”--_El Graduador, Spain._ “Although the book is written in English no Spaniard could have written it with more conscientiousness and enthusiasm.”--_El Defensor de Granada, Spain._ BY ALBERT F. CALVERT THE ALHAMBRA OF GRANADA, BEING A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MOSLEM RULE IN SPAIN FROM THE REIGN OF MOHAMMED THE FIRST TO THE FINAL EXPULSION OF THE MOORS, TOGETHER WITH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTRUCTION, THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE DECORATION OF THE MOORISH PALACE, WITH 80 COLOURED PLATES AND NEARLY 300 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS (NEW EDITION). DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO H.M. KING ALFONSO XIII. Size 10 x 7-1/2. Price £2 2s. net PRESS NOTICES “It is hardly too much to say that this is one of the most magnificent books ever issued from the English Press.”--_Building World._ “One is really puzzled where to begin and when to stop in praising the illustrations.”--_Bookseller._ “The most complete record of this wonder of architecture which has ever been contemplated, much less attempted.”--_British Architect._ “A treasure to the student of decorative art.”--_Morning Advertiser._