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THE MAGIC OF SPAIN
BY AUBREY F. G. BELL
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES.
THIS is rather a collection of stray notes on Spain than a connectedstudy—of notes from many pleasant hours of Spanish literature andtravel, but perhaps of too individual an interest to appear without someapology. No reference will be found to those great social and politicalproblems which disturb Spanish life. To fill the idler moments of aSpanish holiday, and possibly to help the reader to feel that “parfum duterroir” which pervades Spain, is the unambitious object of these pages.Better still, if he turns from them in dissatisfaction to authoritativewriters on Spanish life and letters, and to the magic-land of Spanishliterature itself. For permission to reprint some of these short essaysin slightly altered form the author has to thank the Editors of theMorning Post, the Outlook, and the Queen.
IT is not easy in a few words to account for the strange Oriental spellthat Spain has exercised over many minds nor to explain the potency ofits a