Books: Briton in Spain

BEHIND THE SPANISH BARRICADES— John Langdon-Davies—McBride ($2.75).

Historical crises usually bring on an avalanche of hasty interpretations, dim eyewitness accounts that last no longer than the event that gave rise to them. Less perishable than most works of its type, John Langdon-Davies' 275-page Behind the Spanish Barricades is a literary hybrid, partly a work of political journalism, intelligent and humane but offering no sensationally new information, partly a warm and colorful discussion of peaceful Spanish ways which the present tragedy makes poignant and distressing.

There is no question as to whose Spanish barricades Mr....