’Mr. Blackburn is an artist in words, and can paint a picture in a paragraph.  He delights in the beauty of form and colour, in the perfume of flowers, in the freedom of the desert, in the brilliant glow and delicious warmth of a southern atmosphere.’—­Spectator.

’This is a genuine book, full of character and trustworthiness.  The woodcuts, with which it is liberally embellished, are excellent, and bear upon them the stamp of truth to the scenes and incidents they are intended to represent.  Mr. Blackburn’s views of art are singularly unsophisticated and manly.’—­Leader.

’Interesting as are Mr. Blackburn’s ascriptions of Algiers, we almost prefer those of the country beyond it.  His sketches of the little Arab village, called the Bouzareah, and of the storm that overtook him there, are in the best style of descriptive writing.’—­London Review.

’Mr. Blackburn is an artist and a lover of nature, and he pretends to nothing more in these gay and pleasing pages.’—­Daily News.

’Since the days of Eoethen, we have not met with so lively, racy, gossiping, and intellectual a book as this.’—­News of the World.

’The reader feels, that in perusing the pages of “Artists and Arabs,” he has had a glimpse of sunshine more intense than any ever seen in cloudy England.’—­The Queen.

’The narrative is told with a commendable simplicity and absence of self display, or self boasting; and the illustrations are worthy the fame of a reputable British artist.’—­Press.

’The sparkling picturesqueness of the style of this book is combined with sound sense, and strong argument, when the author pleads the claims and the beauties of realism in art; and though addressed to artists, the volume is one of that most attractive which hat been set before the general reader of late.’—­Contemporary Review.

_&c. &c. &c._

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Second Edition, Crown 8vo., Six Shillings.

TRAVELLING IN SPAIN

In the Present Day.

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATION’S

By THE LATE John Phillip, R.A., E. LUNDGREN, WALTER SEVERN, AND THE AUTHOR.

ALSO, A NEW MAP OF SPAIN, AND AN APPENDIX OF ROUTES.

Opinions of the Press on “Travelling in Spain.”

’This pleasant volume, dedicated to the Right Hon. E. Horsman, M.P., by his late private secretary, admirably fulfils its author’s design, which was “to record simply and easily, the observations of ordinary English travelers visiting the principal cities of Spain.”  The travellers whose adventures are here recorded were, however, something more than ordinary observers.  Some artists being of the party, have given graceful evidence of their observations in some spiritedly sketches of Spanish scenes and Spanish life.  There are no less than nineteen of these illustrations, some by John Phillip, R.A.; and the ornaments at the beginning and close of each chapter are fac-similes of embroideries brought from Granada.  The whole volume, in its getting up and appearance, is most attractive; and the descriptions of Spanish men and women are singularly interesting.