IN SPAIN.
In Spain. By John Lomas. (A..and C. Black. Os. net.)—Some twenty-five years ago Mr. Lomas wrote a book, the outcome of many wanderings in Spain, under the title of " Sketches in Spain, from Nature, Art, and Life." He has now rewritten it in the light of more recent observation, and records not only the " sweeping changes " which a quarter of a century has brought to the country and its people, but also certain modifications of his own views. The book is illustrated with reproductions of photographs, an arrange- ment in itself significant of change. Obviously the conditions under which In Spain appears are of a favourable kind for a work of real value. The first impressions of a traveller, so he bo intelligent and honest, are valuable in their way—Mr. Lomas is a little hard in describing them as " more or less hysterical "- but these "second thoughts" of a writer already familiar with his subject are altogether on a higher plane. Mr. Lomas regrets, in a way, the changes that ho records. Travelling in Spain is becoming like travel in other civilised countries. Of course, this is an improvement; but there is the drawback that it often hurries the traveller past places that he ought to see. Any one who will take Mr. Lomas for a guide will be saved from these omissions. Generally, we imagine, he will be making a wise choice.
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