SOUTHERN SPAIN
PAINTED    BY     TREVOR
HADDON   ·     DESCRIBED
BY  A. F. CALVERT  ·  PUB-
LISHED BY A. & C. BLACK
LONDON       ·       MCMVIII

PREFACE

FEW travellers have leisure enough to traverse the wide realm of tawnySpain in its every part. Those who must confine their attention to asingle province naturally select Andalusia, where all the Northerner'spreconceptions of the South find realization. The wild scenery ofSouthern Spain, the gay open-air life of the people, the monumentsattesting the splendour of the extinct civilization of the Moor, thespell of romance which still holds its cities, makes this land one ofthe most interesting and fascinating in Europe to the artist, thearchæologist, and the dreamer.

The present volume, mainly the embodiment of personal impressions andobservations, is intended partly to supply the place of a guide-book tothis part of the Peninsula, and with that object I have brought togetheras much of history, art, and topography as the traveller is likely toassimilate. Into the descriptive matter I have introduced a littlegossip, which will, I hope, be not found altogether irrelevant, and mayserve to beguile the tedium of a bare recital of facts.

While I have endeavoured to make the book as useful to travellers aswithin the prescribed limits was possible, I have essayed to give it, bymeans of the illustrations, a more permanent value. It is on the brushrather than on the pen that I have relied to convey an idea of thegorgeous panorama of Southern Spain, and to recall to the returnedtraveller his impressions of the land.

As a vade-mecum, then, for the tourist, and as an album and souvenirof the fairest portion of the realm of the Catholic King, I hope thatthe present volume will be of use to the public, despite theshortcomings it doubtless contains. For rendering these as few aspossible, I have to thank several friends who have looked through theproofs. To one in particular, Mr. E. B. d'Auvergne, I am indebted forvarious scraps of original and entertaining information.

A. F. CALVERT.

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