THE SPANISH ADVENTURES OF WASHINGTON IRVINGClaude G. BowersHoughfon Mifflin ($3).
When Washington Irving, the successful, 42-year-old American author, first visited Madrid in 1826, Spain's empire and glory and even Goya were gone.* All that was left was picturesqueness and a sort of sunset charm, but that was enough to entrance the whimsical New Yorker. Probably the most uncritical foreign observer who ever appeared on the Peninsula, he took to the high life of Spain's capital as happily as his Rip van Winkle had taken to the little Dutchmen's supernatural liquor. One of his...
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