11 AUGUST 1883, Page 25

Rambla—Spain. By the Author of "Other Countries." (Sampson Low and

Co.)—The author has not much to tell us about Spain. How can any traveller have much who, as is ingenuously confessed in this volume, does not know anything about the language ? His most novel observation, as far as our experience goes, is that there is a great deal of noise in Spain, more noise, one would think, than is

in proportion to the industry of the country. Still, the volume is quite readable. The author writes pleasantly, has a certain power of good-humoured observation, and comments and moralises with fairness and good-sense.