UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME 



CORDOVA 



A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF 

 THE ANCIENT CITY WHICH THE CARTHAGINIANS 

 STYLED THE "GEM OF THE SOUTH," WITH 160 

 ILLUSTRATIONS 



GAY-LOOKING, vivacious in its beauty, silent, ill-provided, depopulated, 

 Cordova was once the pearl of the West, the city of cities, Cordova of 

 the thirty suburbs and three thousand mosques ; to-day she is no 

 more than an overgrown village, but she still remains the most 

 Oriental town in Spain. 



Cordova, once the centre of European civilisation, under the Moors the 

 Athens of the West, the successful rival of Baghdad and Damascus, the seat of 

 learning and the repository of the arts, has shrunk to the proportions of a third- 

 rate provincial town ; but the artist, the antiquary and the lover of the beautiful, 

 will still find in its streets and squares and patios a mysterious spell that cannot 

 be resisted. 



BY ALBERT F. CALVERT 



LIFE 



O F 



CERVANTES 



A NEW LIFE OF THE GREAT SPANISH AUTHOR 



TO COMMEMORATE THE TERCENTENARY OF THE 



PUBLICATION OF "DON QUIXOTE," WITH 



NUMEROUS PORTRAITS AND REPRODUCTIONS 



FROM EARLY EDITIONS OF "DON QUIXOTE" 



Size Crown 8vo. 150 pp. Price 3/6 net 



PRESS NOTICES 



" A popular and accessible account 

 of the career of Cervantes." 



Daily Chronicle. 



" A very readable and pleasant 

 account of one of the great writers of 

 all time." Morning Leader. 



" Mr. CALVERT is entitled to the 

 gratitude of book-lovers for his indus- 

 trious devotion at one of our greatest 

 literary shrines." Birmingham Post. 



" It is made trebly interesting by 

 the very complete set of Cervantes' 

 portraits it contains, and by the in- 

 clusion of a valuable bibliography." 

 Black and While. 



" We recommend the book to all 

 those to whom Cervantes is more than 

 a mere name." Westminster Gazette. 



" A most interesting resume of all 

 facts up to the present time known." 

 El Nervion de Bilbao, Spain. 



" The most notable work dedicated 

 to the immortal author of Don Quixote 

 that has been published in England." 

 El Graduador, Spain. 



" Although the book is written in 

 English no Spaniard could have written 

 it with more conscientiousness and 

 enthusiasm." 



El Defensor de Granada, Spain. 



