Presents the history of Spain, its theater, its art, its music and its literature.

Includes index.

Spain is a country of diversity -- Spain is Romanized -- The Visigoth come to Spain -- The Moors enrich Spain -- Christian Spain to 1252 -- From Alfonso X to Ferdinand and Isabella -- Mediaeval epic and lyric poetry -- The learned king, the early novel and drama -- Juan Ruiz, His Book of Good Love, satire -- Fifteenth Century poets, ballads -- The era of the cathedrals -- From the Catholic sovereigns to Philip II -- The Renaissance in Spain -- Spain's glory and decline, philosophers, mystics -- Arcadians and realists of the Sixteenth Century -- Picaros and gallants -- Cervantes -- The theater of the Golden Age -- Subtleties and Arabesques in literature -- Spain's Golden Age in the arts -- The Bourbons come to Spain, the Eighteenth Century -- Scholarship, dullness and brilliance, the Eighteenth Century -- Romantic color returns, the Nineteenth Century -- Realism in the later Nineteenth Century -- The road to unhappiness -- An introspective generation; 1898 -- Recent art and music -- Literature of the present, conclusion.