and jealousy have been
at the bottom of the feeling ever manifested in Spain towards that
illustrious name. There are some few stains in the grand work of Le
Sage. He has imitated without acknowledgment three or four passages
contained in the life of Obregon, a curious work, of which we have
already spoken, and to which on some future occasion we may perhaps
revert.

But the Hand-book? We take leave of it with the highest respect and
admiration for the author; and recommend it not only to travellers in
Spain, but to the public in general, as a work of a very high order,
written _con amore_ by a man who has devoted his whole time, talents, and
all the various treasures of an extensive learning to its execution. We
repeat that we were totally unprepared for such a literary treat as he
has here placed before us. It is our sincere wish that at his full
convenience he will favour us with something which may claim
consanguinity with the present work. It hardly becomes us to point out
to an author subjects on which to exercise his powers. We shall,
however, take the liberty of hinting that a good history of Spain does
not exist, at least in English--and that not even Shelton produced a
satisfactory translation of the great gem of Spanish literature, 'The
Life and Adventures of Don Quixote.'

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LONDON:
Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W.
_Edition limited to Thirty Copies_

Footnote:

{13} Relaciones de la vida del Escudero Marcos de Obregon.

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