Legends and Romances of Spain

Within the romances of Spain we find that folklore plays an inconsiderable part, and that her chivalric fictions are either the offspring of historical happenings or of the brilliant and glowing imagination which illumines the whole expanse of Peninsular literature. The author makes an earnest endeavor to provide English readers with a conspectus of Spanish romantic literature as expressed in its chivalric novels, ballads and some of its lighter aspects. The reader will find full accounts and summaries of all the more important works under each of these headings, many of which had never before been described in English. Illustrated.