Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Joaquín Sorolla, Herman van Swanevelt and Peter Paul Rubens. Sims travels - Spain, Algiers, Monte Carlo, Italy, Vienna and Budapest - and reports back in the persona that made him the best-read columnist in London. Behind the joking is the same eye that produced his slum reporting. This edition 56 plates of paintings by Turner, Fortuny, Sorolla and others, dating from 1600 to 1925.