Moorish Remains in Spain. By Albert F. Calvert. (John Lane.
42s. net.)—This is one of the books to which a simply literary review cannot pretend to do justice. Mr. Calvert gives a brief record of the Moorish Conquest of Spain, but the main purpose of his book is to bring before the English reader the art, architectural and decorative, of the people. We must not suppose, he tells us, that we know what they could do when we have seen and appreciated the Alhambra. The Moors, he says, "were not a one- city nation." In this volume he deals with and presents, with great wealth of illustration, the relics of their achievement in Cordova, Seville, and Toledo. The illustrations number nearly three hundred, of which eighty-four are in colour. The book seems worthy of its subject, and we would gladly give a more effective description of its many beauties.
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