“As we read what he has written we see Spanish types with a new significance, and we lay down the volume with a better and a clearer understanding of Spain and the Spaniards.”
| + | Ind. 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 150w. |
“It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Wigram ... was not accompanied on his journey through Northern Spain by a professional painter who would have been able to supplement his eloquent descriptions of the scenes he visited by aesthetic presentments of them in colour. Gifted, moreover, with a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humor, Mr. Wigram manages to hit off in a few telling sentences the idiosyncrasies not only of the men and women, but of the animals he met.”
| + − | Int. Studio. 35: 167. Ap. ’07. 340w. |
“Mr. Wigram has well caught in his pictures the varied colors of Spain, which seem at first glance so inharmonious when viewed by essentially Occidental eyes. But they are true, and the artist is to be congratulated that he has dared to depict the truth and to account for it so entertainingly in a most attractively written text.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 620w. |
“The author not only describes the country through which he rode or walked, but also tells anecdotes, gives bits of the history of certain places, and provides other interesting information.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 360w. |
“An altogether unworthy successor to Ford and Borrow is Mr. Wigram who possesses one faculty denied to those worthies—namely, the facility of describing by picture as well as by pen.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 100w. |