_A year in Spain. By a Young American. Third Edition, enlarged. New
York. Harper and Brothers._
We have more than once recorded in the Messenger the high pleasure
afforded us by the pages of Lieutenant Slidell. The “_Year in Spain_”
with the exception of its third volume, is no novelty, we are sure.
Its well-limned natural scenery—its exceedingly happy groups of
banditti, and boleros, and mouse-colored asses, and muleteers, and
modern Sancho Panzas, and Sangrados, and primitive Alcaldes, and
pallazzos, and plazas, and posadas, are still passing before the eyes
of a great majority of our readers in a Kaleidescopal freshness and
variety, unimpaired, and unimpairable. It would hardly be worth our
while then to tell the public what the public know quite as well as
ourselves—that the book has a vigorous interest—has received a great
deal of commendation—and deserves it. The third volume in the present
edition is superadded to the English _imprimatur_, and embodies what
we consider the most effective portion of the narrative—an account of
the author's visit to Grenada. The mechanical execution of the book is
honorable to the Messieurs Harpers. The vignettes in each of the
volumes, are particularly good. We would sincerely recommend our
friends to procure a copy of the work forthwith—to give it a niche in
their libraries—and to remember that it may safely be referred to upon
occasion, as a most creditable specimen of American talent.