Communications

SIR:

As one professing a specialty in things Spanish, Mr. Mallan has made such a muddled display of his knowledge that I feel the animus behind his review of García Lorca (Autumn, 1944) proceeded from his intention to hammer out a few fond ideas about Spain and not from any intention to write the criticism of a book. Even the pedantic little title, ‘How to Understand a Spaniard,” suggests this.¹ More descriptive of Mr. Mallan’s apparent purpose would have been a title like “How I Would Write a Book on García Lorca.”