"Talking of romance and of chivalry, that tattered book down yonder has as much between its disreputable covers as most that I know. It is Washington Irving's "Conquest of Grenada." I do not know where he got his material for this book — from Spanish chronicles, I presume — but the wars between the Moors and the Christian knights must have been among the most chivalrous of exploits. I could not name a book which gets the beauty and the glamour of it better than this one,..." --Through the Magic Door, pg. 227