JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Hispania. HISPANIA When Spain Was Young, by FRANK CALLCOTT. Woodcuts by CLARA SKINNER. Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1932. 300 pages. $2.50. The author has retold in simple attractive prose five of the great Spanish historical legends: Roderick the Last King of the Goths; Pelayo; Bernardo del Carpio; Fernun GonzAlez, Count of Castile; and The Seven Lords of Lara. There is need for just such a book as this for high-school libraries and for a gift book. Beside the eminently cultural value of it, nothing could better arouse an interest in Spanish. And I know some college students, candidates for a Doctor's degree, who might well unify their literary knowledge of these classic stories by reading Dr. Callcott's versions. The Anatomy of Don Quixote, a Symposium. Edited by M. J. BENARDETE, Brooklyn College, and ANGEL FLORES, Cornell University. The Dragon Press, Ithaca, New York, 1932. xiv + 120 pages. This book contains the English translation of four essays not otherwise easily accessible. They are: "The Genesis," by Ram6n Menendez Pidal; "The Social and Historical Background," by A. Morel-Fatio; "The Style," by Helmut Hatzfeld; and "Hamlet and Don Quixote," by Ivan Turgenev. Mr. Benardete, in the Introduction, calls attention to the large amount of attention which Spanish scholars have been paying to Cervantes' masterpiece in recent years. Outside of Spain, Don Quixote has long been a topic of scientific study. More recently in Europe, appreciative studies have made their appearance. In the midst of her troubles, Europe is looking for aid, and Mr. Benardete thinks that this is the reason for turning to Spain in a search for values. "The Editors, having in mind this new interest in Cervantes, and thinking as well of students, critics, and the intelligent public, have gathered these essays which in their estimation are permanent acquisitions to the ever growing library of books on "Spain's Bible." The Works of Pere Torroella, Catalan writer of the fifteenth century.
