“It is only fitting that this important volume has been dedicated to the King of Spain, for it would be difficult to imagine a more sumptuous work illustrating the beautiful buildings which the Moors left behind them in the Peninsula to bear everlasting record to their taste and culture.... The illustrations are such a prominent feature of this volume that they claim our first attention. At the risk of being suspected of exaggeration we can only say that it is impossible to praise too highly the care with which they have been prepared. There are some hundreds of them, of which between eighty and ninety are exact reproductions in colour and gold of various portions of the marvellously beautiful decorations so beloved of the Moors and so characteristic of their work. The other illustrations are so numerous and well chosen as to give a perfect series of pictures of every portion of these Moorish buildings. Details of tracery, capitals of pillars, sections of friezes, decorations and roofs are pictured with absolute faithfulness, and as a treasure-house of Moorish art this book and its predecessor are, and will probably remain, unique. But by modestly remarking in his preface that he has made the letterpress subservient to the illustrations, the author has done himself a great injustice. Not only is the book carefully thought out and well arranged, but it is written in a most sympathetic spirit, and abounds in passages of real eloquence.”--_Birmingham Daily Post._ “This handsome volume is the complement of Mr. CALVERT’S work on the Alhambra, and, like its predecessor, is lavishly illustrated.... The illustrations have been chosen with excellent taste, and executed with considerable skill.... It would be difficult to find anything more representative in their respective ways.”--_Manchester Guardian._ IMPRESSIONS OF SPAIN BY ALBERT F. CALVERT _8vo. 10s. 6d. NET_ _SOME PRESS OPINIONS_ “Covers a great deal of ground, and treats a great many subjects.”--_Times._ “Is full of that true knowledge which comes of sympathy, and is both more trustworthy and more agreeable than many more pretentious volumes.”--_Morning Post._ “Mr. CALVERT lends to his theme freshness of colour, detail, and good judgment.”--_Daily Mail._ “No work of recent times so adequately depicts Spain and its people with so sympathetic an appreciation of its greatness and charm.”--_Daily News._ “Its charm consists in the author’s whole-hearted enthusiasm for his subject.... Must infect the most hostile reader.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._ “A most acceptable addition to the literature of travel.”--_Morning Advertiser._ “We can heartily recommend this book.”--_Field._ “Can be honestly recommended to anyone desirous of acquiring a knowledge of Spain.”--_Court Circular._ “The author may be congratulated on a work that is by far the best he has produced.”--_Mining Journal._