30 JANUARY 1932, Page 26

HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE • By E. D. Laborde

A new History of Spanish Literature, by E. D. Laborde .(Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) has been written with the idea of providing a comprehensive but not exhaustive history of Spanish literature for younger students. It does. this quite well, but there is Tin reason why younger students should prefer it to their Fitzmaurice Kelly. Literary criticism has been avoided, and those opinions put forward are, except 'in 4ne or two cases, helpful and correct,