“The translation renders into equivalent English much quaint and dry humour; smacking of the racy Andalusian, as well as of the more solid Castilian.”—Athenæum.
“A volume of striking stories, illustrative of a deeply interesting country. They bring us to acquaintance with new scenes and new personages from a comparatively unknown history.”—Art Journal.
“It seems to us as if we had fallen on a store of pieces for the puppet-show in Don Quixote, so delightfully quaint and chivalrous, and truly Spanish are the stories.”—Monthly Packet.
“A very interesting budget of popular legends, charmingly told, and many of them bearing that curious impress of common origin that makes real popular tales throughout our Aryan race so strongly alike, yet so different.... There are others exclusively Spanish, and full of old Castilian grandeur and chivalry.”—Literary Churchman.
“Well calculated not only to please the young, but also to interest the scholar in that curious question—the origin of popular folk-lore.”—Notes and Queries.
Household Stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol, including the Rose Garden of King Laryn. Illustrations by T. Green. Post 8vo, price 5s.
“We thank the author of ‘Patrañas’ for another rich treat.”—Art Journal.
“A collection of charming legends, all of them interesting, and some of them exquisitely beautiful.”—Scotsman.
“Since Dr. Dasent’s Norse Tales a more important and interesting collection of legends has not appeared.”—British Quarterly Review.
The Good St. Louis and his Times. By Mrs. Bray, Author of “The Life of Stothard,” “Romance of the Tamar and Tavy,” etc., with Portrait. Post 8vo, price 7s. 6d.