The Magic of Spain

THE MAGIC OF SPAIN


BY AUBREY F. G. BELL
Or vous aurez loisir Cheminant en Espagne Bien que maintes montagnes Il vous faudra monter. Pilgrims’ Song.
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMXII.
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES.

THIS is rather a collection of stray notes on Spain than a connected study—of notes from many pleasant hours of Spanish literature and travel, but perhaps of too individual an interest to appear without some apology. No reference will be found to those great social and political problems which disturb Spanish life. To fill the idler moments of a Spanish holiday, and possibly to help the reader to feel that “parfum du terroir” which pervades Spain, is the unambitious object of these pages. Better still, if he turns from them in dissatisfaction to authoritative writers on Spanish life and letters, and to the magic-land of Spanish literature itself. For permission to reprint some of these short essays in slightly altered form the author has to thank the Editors of the Morning Post , the Outlook , and the Queen .