There were no two figures better known in Spain than Cervantes' creations of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, his squire; the crazy knight on his broken-down old plow-horse, in his rusty armor, his helmet mended with bits of green ribbon, and portly Sancho, faithful, grumbling when hungry, cheerful when fed, shrewd and talkative, jogging behind him on Dapple, his sturdy mule, "the light of his eyes." There is scarcely to be found in literature anything more naïve than the conscious pride these redoubtable heroes betray in Part II, over the fame they had acquired through their great deeds recorded in Part I.

From the Preface by Mabel F. Wheaton