22 APRIL 1943, Page 12

Sm,—It is easy to leave the impression that a book

on Spain, by a little-known author, contains yet another propagandist version of con- temporary events. I will not discuss each of your reviewer's rather curious statements about Mr. Brenan's Spanish Labyrinth ; but when he declares that the bibliography is vitiated by a bias, any historian acquainted with the subject must express surprise. This bibliography, with its annotations, is a piece of serious scholarship in which historians will recognise both solid learning and objective judgement. Unless your reviewer would defend Ignacio Nunez's account of the 1934 revolution, it is difficult to find a single instance upon which his imputation of bias could conceivably