27 MAY 1899, Page 26

In the series of "The Children's Study" (T. Fisher Unwin)

we have an eighth volume, A Child's Ifiatory y. Spain, by Leonard Williams (2s. 6d.). Spanish.history, from the multiplicity of divisions, Christian and Moslem, is a very complicated affair, and tests to the uttermost the skill of the writer who would make it in any way comprehensible to a child. Mr. Williams passes rapidly over the Gothic period and the Moorish Conquest, and takes up the story more in detail with Pelayo and his dynasty. The Cid occupies a prominent place, but he is the real Cid, not the hero of sentiment. Altogether the book may be recommended with confidence.