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Show I TRAVELS IN SPAIN. Two Argonauts in Spain. By Jerome Hart. Published by Payot, Upham & Company, Son Francisco. Letters, these, which wero first pub-l pub-l , llshcd in tho Argonaut, San Francisco, j They glvo a brilliant, panoramic glance at Spain In their fllttings from place to j place, and all is told in a lively manner, ! . iind is Illustrated with sixteen pictures, one of them a rubricated Moorish arch. ) Tho writer very handaoncly says: "If I what is written hero is mainly light, it is I )ccauae wc saw mainly the lighter side ot I life: if what is written hero Is pleasantry, it Is becauso our experiences were plcas-i plcas-i ant; if I do not write of brigandage, it is because wo saw no brigands; if "I do not ; writo of religious bigotry. It is because wo j saw ot it only the gorgeous churches which aro supported by the squalid poor; f jf I do not writo of monarchical weakness, l of official corruption, it is becauso I could I judge, of none of these things, being only a i bird of passage. In short, tho reader will ; find' in tbeso pages nothing about religion, i revolutions, or politics. Concerning the J first two, moro serious and valuable books i discuss them; concerning Spanish politics, ' vcn Spaniards say they do not understand them, and t doubt whether foreigners over Tho author writes brightly of "Crossing tho Pyrenees," "Tho Gateway of tlio Sun," I "Into Andalnsia," "Granada and tho Al- hambra," and "The City ot Seville." Each . title is subdivided Into a number of loiters, f and each batter takes up somo theme and L treats it in a lively manner. They touch upon a surprising number of things, and II every time in such a -way as to be ot the I most entertaining Interest- Tlio book is H excellent reading; the letters -were a dc- elded success. The publishers have 1 brought it out in admirable style. |