19 JANUARY 1907, page 19

Modern Spain.•

THE want of a thoroughly trustworthy history of modern Spain has long been felt. The present volume is a work of un- doubted authority, and exhibits a complete mastery of the •......

Thomas Hood : Poet And Punster.*

A COMPLETE collection of Hood's poems in one volume is, it has to be confessed, a depressing thing, and we cannot but think that Mr. Walter Jerrold's labours in preparing this......