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Rh of Church and State; of groanings over his own wickedness, tempered by mild senile enjoyment of these youthful escapades; of love and marriage; of vivid interjectional description ; and of quotations from Livy, from Horace, from Pliny, from Cicero, from Tacitus and Marcus Aurelius, — the old philosopher gossips over infirmities of time, and hope of immortality. He carries minutiae of detail even beyond the grave, and leaves behind a Latin inscription to adorn his tomb. The photographic minuteness with which life in those earlier days is depicted makes "El Periquillo Sarniento" an admirable yardstick by which to measure reform.

Among more modern stories, "Guadalupe," by Irenio Paz, editor of the daily paper "La Patria," may be taken as a fair example of the popular novel. Senor Paz is a voluminous writer. The series of bulky volumes bearing his name on the titlepage must tantalize his Northern editorial brother with suggestions of possibilities of leisure with which the latter is perforce unacquainted. Fancy the managing head of the "New-York Herald" indulging in literary distractions which should result in a score of books! The style of this author is simple and direct. The characters